Sunday, August 17, 2008

Phelps wins historic eighth gold



Michael Phelps won his eighth Olympic gold medal of the Beijing Games to beat Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven, with victory in the 4x100m medley.

The 23-year-old teamed up with Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen and Jason Lezak to claim the historic gold in a new world record time.

They held off Australia and Japan to win in a world record time of three minutes 29.34 seconds.

for more

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/swimming/7566088.stm


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