Michael Phelps is the new Michael

I just witnessed one of the greatest events an athlete can achieve -- winning the most gold medals ever in the Olympics. Ever. Michael Phelps is from Baltimore, trained virtually in my hometown backyard, and is doing it in Beijing. What irks me is that he makes it look effortless, like winning a gold medal is walk in the park for him. Though, I've learned that it is.

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10:18 a.m. (Beijing time)

Michael stands upon the swimmer's pedestal. Flapping his arms like he's about to lift off. Trust me, he is about to. Almost immediately, the low drone bleeps, triggering eight swimmers to leap and dive like dolphins.

Almost 10:20 a.m. (Beijing time)

Michael completes the four lengths of the 200M fly in 1 minute, 52.09 seconds, breaking his own world record. Again. This makes four consecutive world records, not to mention gold medals in the 400 individual medley, 4X100M medley, the 200M free and just now, the 200M fly. All by Michael.

He is the first person to earn double-digit Olympic gold medals. Trust me, he is not stopping at 10.