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By the number of medals of the highest standard, the hostscompetitions far bypassed all of their rivals, winning 51 gold medal. This is 15 medals more than the runner-up in this indicator of the US Olympic team. But the Americans brought to the Olympics its main hero. Swimmer Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals and set 7 world records. Against this backdrop, the results of the Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitatjima, who became a four-time winner of the Olympics, are also fading, which is also a phenomenal achievement. Another hero of the game was the Jamaican runner Usain Bolt, who ran 100 and 200 meters with world records. Tritical same world record, he installed in his team in the relay 4x100 meters. The Russian Olympic team in the medal standings was in third place, having won 23 gold, 21 silver and 29 bronze medals. Expectably two sets of gold awards were given to Russian girls in synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics. Six Olympic gold medals brought in a piggy bank team swimmers. Three in the Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling. The same number of times the athletes have pleased the Russian fans. Two victories were won in walking, while Olga Kaniskina set a world record at 20 km. Another world record was established by the pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva. Already in the rank of Olympic champion, she overcame the bar at a height of 5 m 05 cm. The winners in track and field athletics were also the jumper Andrey Silnov, the Russian team in the relay 4x100 meters, and Gulnara Galkina-Samitova in the 3000 m race with obstacles. and the tournament was won by Russian tennis player Elena Dementieva. Suddenly, the boxing tournament ended, where our fighters took two gold and one bronze. Here, for the first time in the history of their speeches, the Cubans won no gold medals, and for the first time in history Chinese boxers climbed to the highest level of the podium. Moreover, in the boxing tournament, China was the first in terms of the number of medals. This led to a scandal surrounding the judging, after which several arbitrators were disqualified. Closing of the Games-2008 was held on August 24, at the main Olympic stadium "Bird's Nest".

Michael's father is a policeman, and his mother is a teacher inschool. They divorced when the boy was 9 years old. Michael stayed with his mother and two older sisters. The girls were already engaged in swimming when their brother at the age of seven came to the pool. Up to 12 years old, Michael was involved in other sports (baseball and American football). Felps suffered from a syndrome of distracted attention, so study was given to him badly. He could hardly concentrate on something and knocked out all the objects surrounding him. Often such behavior caused peer laughter, from which the boy got rid only in the pool, where he literally transformed, turning into a graceful water inhabitant. Michael was lucky, and he met a man who saw his great potential. Bob Bowman trains a young man to this day. Then, in 2000, Phelps became the youngest participant of the Olympic Games in the history of American swimming. In Sydney, the teenager was the fifth. But already in 2001, Michael set a world record in the butterfly at a distance of 200 meters. He was not even 16 years old! But the real world sensation Phelps became in Athens at the 2004 Olympics, where he won eight medals, six of them - gold. In the same year, the young man entered the university at the faculty of "Sport Marketing and Management", but did not quit swimming. The subsequent Olympics in Beijing brought Michael eight more gold medals, thereby breaking all records in the number and quality of awards in some competitions. Phelps became the most titled athlete in the world. For his tremendous achievements, the swimmer received from Speedo, his sponsor, one million dollars. The sportsman trains for several hours every day, not to lose shape and prepare for new records. Outside the pool, Michael is an ordinary guy, but stunningly charming and cheerful. He likes computer games, television, music and buckets with a popcorn. Phelps has many friends with whom he spends his free time. He also has a favorite - English Bulldog German. In 2009, with Michael, there was an unpleasant episode - he was caught in smoking narcotic grass and disqualified for three months. This time has long ago passed and now the great swimmer Michael Phelps is fighting for medals at the 30th Olympic Games in London.