The Michael Phelps Groupies Thread
 

Just because I'm bored and glued to NBC, I thought I would start a thread on Michael Phelps progress to beating Mark Spitz' record (Sort of like Irishpipes follows Recruitment).

Phelps' Events: 200m freestyle, 100m butterfly, 200m butterfly, 200m individual medley, 400m individual medley, 4x100m freestyle relay, 4x200m freestyle relay, 4x200m medley relay

Finals or medal events are in bold.

Saturday, August 9
· Men's 400m Individual Medley -- Heats - Breaks own Olympic Record from 2004 with a time of 4:07:82.
· 10:03pm Men's 400m Individual Medley -- Final Gold Medal and World Record of 4:03.84

Sunday, August 10
· 9:54 a.m. Men's 200m Freestyle -- Heats Qualified 4 with a time of 1:46.48
· 10:21 a.m. Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay -- Heats Team set a new Olympic Record and World Record, with a time of 3:12.23. (Nathan Adrian, Cullen Jones, Ben Wildman-Tobriner and Matt Grevers) Phelps will swim in the finals
· 11:26 p.m. Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay -- Final Gold Medal Team of Cullen Jones, Jason Lezak, Michael Phelps and Garrett Weber-Gale set a world record with a time of 3:08.24

Monday, August 11
· 12:28 a.m. Men's 200m Freestyle -- Semifinals Qualified fourth with a time of 1:46.28. Peter Vanderkaay from Michigan qualified first with a time of 1:45.76
· 8:15 a.m. Men's 200m Butterfly -- Heats Qualified 1st with a time of 1:54.70, a new Olympic Record
· 10:16 p.m. Men's 200m Freestyle -- Final Gold Medal and World Record with a time of 1:42.96
· 11:50 p.m. Men's 200m Butterfly -- Semifinals Qualified 1 and matched his Olympic Record from the Heats

Tuesday, August 12
· 8:55 a.m. Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay -- Heats Qualified for the Finals 1st with a time of 7:04.66, demolishing the old Olympic Record of 7:07.05. (David Walters, Ricky Berens, Erik Vendt and Klete Keller)
· 10:21 p.m. Men's 200m Butterfly -- Final Gold Medal, Olympic Record and World Record 1:52.03,
· 11:19 p.m. Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay -- Final Gold medal and World Record 6:58:56 (Ryan Lochte, Michael Phelps, Peter Vanderkaay and Ricky Berens)

Wednesday, August 13
· 9:51 a.m. Men's 200m Individual Medley -- Heats Qualified 7th: 1:58.65, one-half second behind top Qualifier Ryan Lochte

Thursday, August 14
· 12:32 a.m. Men's 200m Individual Medley -- Semifinals Qualified 2nd , 1:57.70 to Ryan Lochte 1:57.69
· 9:02 a.m. Men's 100m Butterfly -- Heats Qualified second, 50.87
· 10:48 p.m. Men's 200m Individual Medley -- Final 1:54.23, Olympic Record, World Record
· 11:55 p.m. Men's 100m Butterfly -- Semifinals Qualified 2nd overall, 50.87

Friday, August 15
· 9:45 a.m. Men's 4x100m Medley Relay -- Heats USA qualified 1st (Matt Grevers, Mark Gangloff, Ian Crocker and Garrett Weber-Gale) with a time of 3:32.75
· 10:10 p.m. Men's 100m Butterfly -- Final Gold Medal and Olympic Record, with a time of 50.58. Tied Mark Spitz's mark of seven Gold Medals in one Olympic Game

Saturday, August 16
· 10:58 p.m. Men's 4x100m Medley Relay -- Final Gold Medal and World Record (Aaron Piersol, Brendan Hanson, Michael Phelps and Jason Lezak) 3:29.34

LOL! Wow, you're addicted to Michael Phelps. ;):p

They played a kinda weird version of the American anthem, IMO. They kinda repeated the first bit like 3x, and then cut it short. Oh well.

I thought that was a little weird, as well. My mom didn't notice though, so I thought I was just hearing things!

At first I thought they had the wrong country's music. I'm glad Phelps (and the President) took the song being cut short in stride. Lord knows there are countries where this would become a major major issue.

I thought at the start of the anthem it sounded like they played it twice

Nope, I'm just bored. I do admit that I'm always glued to the TV during the whole olympics.

He set a new record today!

Yes, so I thought it sounded a lil' bit odd.

Update time!

Michael Phelps won his 2nd gold!

That relay was beyond incredible. Lezak will be on Phelps' Christmas card list forever.

:eek: THAT KICKED ASS.

French ass

If you looked close, you could see a little bit of the top-of-the-butt. Very nice. I second whoever it was calling for the return of the speedo.

That was a great relay.