Biography Michael Phelps

In the year, his parents divorced, and the children began to live with the mother, with whom Michael still has a very close relationship. Michael began to engage in swimming at the age of 7 years, when his two older sisters, Whitney of the year of birth and Hilary, was accepted into the local swimming team. Up to 12 years, he played baseball and American football in parallel.

In childhood, Little Felps had serious health problems with multiple attention syndrome, a variety of autism, because of which the boy suffered greatly. He could not concentrate, constantly stumbled upon everything around, overturned the objects surrounding him, causing laughs of peers and spreading all over the large complexes, but the swimming classes helped him to eradicate his ailment, although some do not agree with this, since it is believed that this disease is chronic, and medicines and therapy can only partly relieve symptoms.

Bob immediately recognized Michael's potential and became his coach who training him now. At the age of 15, Michael Felps became the youngest participant in the Olympic Games in the history of American navigation. He participated with the composition of the American team in the Olympic Games in Sydney G, although he came there only the fifth. In the spring, Felps set a world record at a distance of meters of Butterfly and became the youngest swimmer in history, which set the world record.

He was then 15 years and 9 months old. Later, he broke his record at the world swimming championship with the result, earned his first international medal. Felps became a celebrity after the Olympic Games of the year in Athens, where he earned 8 medals of 6 gold. So he repeated the record of the Russian gymnast Alexander Dityatin according to the total number of medals received in one Olympics, established by Dityatin in the year.

In the year, Bob Bownean was transferred to Michigan, and Michael went with him. He entered the University of Michigan at the Department of Sports Marketing and Management, continuing to train under the guidance of his coach. Having won at the Olympics in Beijing 8 gold medals, in addition to 6 gold won at the Olympics in Athens, Felps became the most titled among all the disperses in all sports, in addition, the spitz brand was broken by the number of gold medals won at the same Olympiad.

For this achievement, he received from his sponsor, Speedo, 1 million. True, the record could not take place, at the Distant M Batterflya Photofinish showed that Milorad Chavich was the first to touch the side, however, Omega, too, the felps sponsor explained that the photofinisch was not used in swimming and the main thing to exceed 3 kg, the pressure exceeding 3 kg, What Felps did the first.

Outside the pool, Felps leads the same life as everyone else. He loves to play the computer in golf and Halo 3, watch TV, listen to hip-hop, there is air corn. He spends his free time with his friends and English bulldog German.

At the beginning of the year he was convicted of smoking Mariahuan, disqualified for 3 months. Felps' personal life is a mystery. When Michael became the honorary judge of the Miss America - "contest, he was credited with a romantic relationship with almost every participant, whom he smiled, but these stories did not have continued. Now, the Internet is flooded with gossip about Michael’s non -traditional sexual orientation, but these guesses did not receive confirmation.

He is still not married, although he claims that he really wants to find his only and unique, apparently, with the number of fans who surround him, it is very difficult to do.