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na he’s known as the Flying Fish ; in America they call him the Baltimore you call him, American swimmer Michael Phelps looks destined to bee a household name across the world after breaking the Olympic record for most gold medals in the Games. Phelps’ total of eight gold medals in Beijing put him one ahead of patriot Mark Spitz’s previous tally set in 1972. Michael Phelps dominated the field in seven of his races and set an amazing seven world records in the did, however, have one close shave in the 100m butterfly which he won by the smallest possible margin of just seconds, and in another he had to contend with a faulty pair of goggles (游泳鏡 ). Now people are already calling him the greatest Olympian of all whether he is or not, what is it that makes Michael Phelps so good? A good place to start might be his has the perfect body shape for a swimmer: his arms are longer than his height; he has very flexible joints,huge lungs, and incredibly large feet (size 14 in the US, size 49 in China) that act like flippers in the water. To feed his huge swimmer’s body , Phelps eats an astonishing 12,000 calories a day, six times the average for a man of his to his coach, Phelps starts with a breakfast of champions: Three fried egg sandwiches with cheese,tomatoes, fried onions and mayo, a five173。egg omelette, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast and three pancakes with ch