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This Aug. 11, 2008, file photo shows United States' Michael Phelps, foreground, and his teammate Garret Weber-Gale celebrating as their team wins the gold in the men's 4x100-meter freestyle relay swimming final at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Michael Phelps picked up two more victories Saturday at the North Baltimore Aquatic Center's Christmas Meet held at the U.S. Naval Academy's Lejuene Hall, making him 4 of 4 for the weekend.

The swimmer with the Midas touch threw back his head and laughed as he considered the question: Is competing this weekend at a meet he hasn't attempted in about three years a way to bring out the kid in him or does it make him feel like an old man? "A little bit of both," said Michael Phelps , as he got a rubdown after his preliminary heats Friday ...

It's unclear what will be the strangest thing: Olympic star Michael Phelps standing on a pool deck in Annapolis this weekend with children as young as 9, preparing to compete at an annual local club event called the 'Christmas Meet.'

Or the fact that Phelps will be taking each of his six races in the 'boys open' division very seriously.

Phelps's coach Bob Bowman cautioned that Phelps will not be trying to 'set the world on fire,' but he and Phelps agree that, despite the recreation-center atmosphere and the short, 25-yard, non-professional venue for the North Baltimore Aquatic Club's three-day holiday meet at the Naval Academy, Phelps will be as focused on his performance as he was for a pair of recent European World Cups.

Michael Phelps is ready to put an up-and-down post-Olympic year behind him and focus on the challenges that await in 2010, including adjusting to a ban on the high-performance suits that rocked his sport.

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Michael Phelps, who shattered seven world records en route to winning a record eight gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Games, was greeted Saturday morning by an estimated 600 fans during the opening of a new prototype GNC store at Ross Park Mall.

Michael Phelps was defeated by Paul Biedermann of Germany in the 200-meter freestyle at the World Championships in Rome.

Don't go calling him the Big Rip-off. Shaquille O'Neal says ex-teammate Steve Nash's idea for a reality TV show was "slightly different" from the premise of "Shaq VS." At an appearance Saturday to promote the series-ending episode - in which he'll race against Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps - the Cleveland Cavaliers center said Nash's premise ...

Don't go calling him the Big Rip-off. Shaquille O'Neal says ex-teammate Steve Nash's idea for a reality TV show was "slightly different" from the premise of "Shaq VS." At an appearance Saturday to promote the series-ending episode - in which he'll race against Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps - the Cleveland Cavaliers center said Nash's premise ...

Olympic swimming medalist Katie Hoff is changing coasts in an effort to jump-start her stagnant career.

Updated with USA Swimming press release FULLERTON, California, August 17. IN an exclusive conversation with Swimming World , KING's Sean Hutchison revealed that he would be heading to Fullerton, Calif., to open a United States Olympic Committee Post-Graduate Center as part of the Fullerton Aquatics Sports Team .

Clubs in North Baltimore and Fullerton, Calif., have been chosen as U.S. Olympic Committee training centers to help postgraduate swimmers prepare for the Olympics.

Olympic gold medallist Michael Phelps was driving with an invalid, out-of-state license and told police he drank a beer about an hour and 15 minutes before he was involved in an accident, Baltimore police said Friday.

A number of writers doing postmortems on Michael Phelps ' victory over Milorad Cavic are saying it proved that the sport still is more about racing than about high-tech suits.

One photograph showed a smiling Michael Phelps posing with his gold medal following a win at the recent FINA World Championships in Rome.

Last week's FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy, were memorable in that Olympic hero Michael Phelps actually lost a race, but the eight-day competition was perhaps more notable in that it will probably be the last time controversial high-tech swimsuits will appear on the international stage.

Team South Africa continued to keep their medal hopes alive on day six of the 13th Fina World Swimming Championships in Rome.

Wednesday, August 05, 2009 ROME: Olympic great Michael Phelps found all the motivation he needed to launch out on the long road to the 2012 Games at the swimming World Championships.