Read More Here: "A schoolboy error came close to costing the phenomenon that is Michael Phelps a fortune yesterday as his goggles filled with water and left him effectively to swim blind to win his fourth gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games.
The United States swimmer is on course for the so-called 'great eight' at the Water Cube, but failure in the 200 metres butterfly could have cost him the $1 million (about �530,000) bonus pledged to him by Speedo if his gold-medal haul tallies with the seven won by Mark Spitz, a compatriot, in 1972.
Phelps, who still set a world record, finishing in 1min 52.03sec, blamed no one but himself for an error seen at the local pool on a daily basis but rarely, if ever, in an Olympic final. Tackled by The Times yesterday, Phelps said: “I don't know what happened. It just kept getting worse and worse through the race and I was having trouble seeing the walls. I wanted to go 1:51 or better, but for the circumstances I guess it's not too bad.”"
Friday, 15 August 2008
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