Michael Phelps Win Five Gold Medals in the Fastest Meet in Swimming’s History

Michael Phelps put is recent brush with the law behind him, and proved his competence in the pool, a place he knows so well, a second home. He earned five gold medals in the World Swimming Championship in Rome. The last medal came in the final event, the 400 meter medley relay, which brought the curtain down, on the fastest meet in swimming’s history. The US medley relay team earned the final of 43 world records to fall at the meet.

Phelps earned his fifth gold medal in the medley event, which served to highlight is spectacular performance both at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, where he earned eight gold medals. Phelps swam the butterfly leg in the medley, and chipped off valuable seconds off the time, placing his team in a commanding position, winning the event with a time of 3.29.34.

Personally, Phelps set two individuals world records, and was on two relay teams that also broke two world records. According to the Associated Press Phelps was not perturbed with the faster times swan at the meet, and the challenges that he and others will face to break these records. Phelps said that “this is about a sport and the athletes in it” That’s what makes it interesting. It doesn’t matter what suit you’re wearing”.