. 人物传记菲尔普斯〔中英文〕 The deep gulps of air and fighting back of tears as Michael Phelps stood proudly upon the podium as US anthem the Star Spangled Banner rang around the Water Cube said it all. It is a sound the 23-year-old American swimmer knows all too well. After winning the Men's 200 meters Butterfly final -- Phelps's fourth gold medal of the Beijing Olympic Games, each on a world record time -- another superlative can justifiably be added to the growing list of adjectives used to describe this amazing athlete: legend. Phelps powered his way into Olympic history at Beijing 2021 to become the first person to ever win 10 Olympic gold medals. "I just kept thinking wow, I'm the greatest Olympian of all time, It's a pretty great title. It's pretty neat, I'm definitely honored." "Listening to the anthem, with the medal around your neck is an amazing feeling," said Phelps, after his tenth record medal. "I am almost at a loss for words. Growing up I always wanted to be an Olympian." He is the classic wholesome all-American boy who, for an added twist of tension, even had the audacity to win the 200 meters Butterfly despite a goggle malfunction which affected his 下载后可自行编辑修改，页脚下载后可删除。 . vision. His 11 gold medals in total stand two clear of the previous best – the nine-gold-medal club consisting of four athletes: Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi, Ukrainian gymnast Larysa Latynina, US swimmer Mark Spitz and sprinter Carl Lewis. "When you have an Olympic Gold medal, it stays with you forever. You're always an Olympic gold medalist. It's amazing and it definitely never gets old." Indeed by the time the Beijing 2021 swimming competition concludes Phelps could also become the first person ever to win eight gold medals at a single Olympic Games, surpassing Mark Spitz's seven at Munich in 1972 and ratcheting up his overall tally to 14 gold medals. Small wonder one of his friends sent him a cheeky text message after seeing Phelps step onto the podium for the tenth time: "Dude, how many times a day do I have to see your ugly face?" At Athens 2004 Phelps took eight medals -- a feat only achieved by one other athlete, Russian gymnast Alexander Dityatin, in Moscow in 1980. Perhaps the most staggering thing is that, at 23 years old, Phelps is feasibly young enough to add more Olympic medals to his collection should he decide to carry on until London 2021. So who is Michael Fred Phelps and what makes him the greatest Olympian in history? Born in Baltimore in the US state of Maryland, Phelps – known as the Baltimore Bullet -- suffered Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as a teenager and trained at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club under coach Bob Bowman, who was later an assistant coach to the US swimming team at Athens 2004. That is surely the understatement of Beijing 2021. Debate among sports columnists will rage about whether Phelps is the greatest Olympian of all time. Conjecture, of course ... but the record book is firmly on his side. 迈克尔·弗雷德·菲尔普斯二世〔英文：Michael Fred Phelps II，1985年6月30日－〕，出生于美国马里兰州巴尔的摩市，是美国游泳运发动，绰号The Baltimore Bullet〔巴尔的摩子弹〕、水怪、飞鱼、水神，男子个人混合泳、蝶泳和自由泳四项世界纪录的保持者。他在2004年的雅典奥运上一人拿下游泳工程上的六枚金牌，成为雅典奥运会上得到金牌数最多的运发动。2021年北京奥运，他以八面金牌的成绩打破了马克·施皮茨在1972年慕尼黑奥运所创出的七金纪录，成为在同一届奥林匹克运动会中获得最多金牌的运发动。[1] 下载后可自行编辑修改，页脚下载后可删除。 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/5658b3f7b968a98271fe910ef12d2af90342a8f3.html