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The 5 Best Athletes of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Video games
Who they are and why?
one. Michael Phelps (Aquatics/ United States): Considered the greatest athlete in the entire world by several Olympic authorities, Michael holds the present world file in seven swimming functions: 400m person medley(four:03,eighty four), 200m freestyle relay (one:forty two,96), 4 x100m freestyle relay (3:08.24), 200m butterfly (1:fifty two,03), 4x200m freestyle relay (six:58,56), 200m person medley (1:fifty four,23), 4x100m medley relay (three:29,34). On August sixteen, 2008, he also established an Olympic report in the 100m butterfly (50,58). A nationwide hero in Maryland and the United States, he has won sixteen Olympic medals. At the 2008 Summer time Olympics, he broke the 36-calendar year-old document of Mark Spitz with 8 gold Olympic medals. From 2004 to 2008, Michael Phelps has received far more Olympic gold medals than several international locations (including Eire, Luxembourg, Iceland, Panama, Paraguay, Portugal and Malaysia). Not like Mark Spitz, Michael did not contend at the Pan American Game titles. Mike Celizic (sportswriter) wrote :" Phelps has currently done things we have never noticed ahead of and are not likely to see once again. And he's accomplished it every single time he is left the starting up blocks. His 14 gold medals for his profession are the file. In Beijing, he won eight gold medals, five of them all by himself and three as a member of two relay groups. He won two of the golds on the very same day, and 7 medals came with a new world record".
2. Rafael Nadal (Tennis/ Spain):The 22-year-outdated is a single of the best tennis gamers in heritage. He became the initial Spanish to win the gold medal in Olympic tennis. Spain's Rafael Nadal defeated Chile's Fernando Gonzalez, who won the bronze medal in the men's singles tennis match at the 2004 Olympics in Athens (Greece). In 2008, Rafael has also received the French Open and Wimbledon Tournament. Like most Spaniards, Rafael Nadal participant soccer (soccer) as a youngster. "I carried on taking part in soccer as nicely as tennis, but gradually played more and a lot more tennis with my uncle, says Nadal. But I nonetheless favored football.That was my true adore when I was a young boy". In addition to his indigenous language, he speaks English only properly sufficient to carry on an informal dialogue. He says: "Sorry my English not so very good. I only communicate quarter of English. Possibly quarter of a quarter.Not great." .The world's amount one particular tennis participant Rafael Nadal was born on June three, 1986 in Manocor, Mallorca (Spain).
three. Usain Bolt (Athletics/ Jamaica): He is an Olympic idol in the world. At the 2008 Beijing Video games, Usain won two gold medals: 100m (globe and Olympic report) and 200m (globe and Olympic document). He established his initial globe mark on August sixteen, when he ran the 100 meters in 9,sixty nine seconds (he broke his individual document). Just 4 times later on, Usain set up a new world record of 19.thirty seconds in the 200 meters, breaking the old mark of 19,32 set by Michael Johnson (United States) in 1996. Usain Bolt was born on August 21, 1986 in Trelawny,Jamaica. Tim Layden -an American sportswriter- wrote: "He was made available track scholarhips by several U.S faculties but declined". Not like numerous well-known athletes, Usain trains and resides in Jamaica, birthplace of Donald Quarrie, Donovan Bailey, Patrick Ewing, Lennox Miller, George Kerr, Asafa Powell, Tessa Sanderson, Marlene Ottey. Usain Bolt enjoys Jamaica -it is about the measurement of Connecticut- and the Caribbean nations Click here for Story on Michael Phelps.
