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One more down and two more to go, for a man who is on a mission this Olympics to bring home a record-setting eight golds, Michael Phelps notched another gold medal Friday, winning the 200-meter individual medley in a world-record time of 1:54.23.

Here is my earlier blog on Phelps ( Phelps wins 3rd gold, joins elite club record for the most gold medals over an Olympic career ), for those of you keeping track, that makes it six gold medals – and six world records – in Beijing. (Phelps also scored six golds and two bronzes four years ago, in Athens.).

Like Spitz, Phelps has set a world record in every final he’s raced in Beijing. He lowered his own world record in the 200 IM to 1 minute, 54.23 seconds to finish ahead of silver medalist Laszlo Cseh of Hungary and U.S. teammate Ryan Lochte, who won bronze.

This is what Bob Bowman U.S. swimming coach had to say about his performance

“I think if it were all over today, he’d be the greatest Olympian who ever lived,” Bob Bowman.

About his 200-meter IM swim, Phelps said, “I just wanted to step on it in the first 50 [meters] a little bit and try and get out to an early lead …. I knew in the first half, if I got a big enough lead, I thought I could hang on and that’s all I wanted to do.”

Laszlo Cseh of Hungary placed second to Phelps – for the third time in Beijing. “I tried to do a harder start in the first 100 meters but Michael’s breaststroke is awesome,” Cseh said. “Michael is unbeatable.”

The bronze went to Phelps’s teammate – and friend – Ryan Lochte, who won the gold medal in 200-meter backstroke earlier in the day. (Two races in a single day is a “double” in swimmer parlance.)

He competes Saturday morning (Friday night EST) in the 100 butterfly finals. If he finishes ahead of teammate Ian Crocker in that race, he is expected to swim Sunday with the U.S. men in the 4×100 medley relay finals.

With victories in both, Phelps would eclipse Mark Spitz’s seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympics.

I am very confident in a day from now Phelps will win his ever eluding two more golds to be placed in the hall of fame as the best swimmer who ever walked planet Earth.

Good luck Mike, You will rise and shine, we are with you

The man has only one mission this Olympics bringing home a record-setting eight golds, Michael Phelps has already won three gold medals in Beijing, setting world records in all three events.

Phelps won 3rd gold, to join the elite club of Spitz, Carl Lewis, Paavo Nurmi and Larysa Latynina, each with nine share the record for the most gold medals over an Olympic career.

Thousands of spectators and journalists stood on their feet for minutes and applauded in every language one of the greatest moments in the history of swimming, as they held their heads in disbelief. Some commentators even went as far as saying it was the greatest sporting event of all time. Many of the journalists said it was the biggest Olympic moment since runner Michael Johnson’s record at Atlanta, no less

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