Amelia Posted August 17, 2008 Posted August 17, 2008 Audacious goal made real in gold Watch the 8th gold win http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/share.html?videoid=0817_HD_SWB_HL_L1681R1 Golden boy Phelps: 'This is a dream come true' After claiming a historic eight gold medals, Michael Phelps is ready to rest By Michael Inbar TODAY It’s only fitting that Michael Phelps won a record-busting eight gold medals in a country where the number eight is revered for bringing good fortune. But for the strapping 6-foot-four super athlete whom the Chinese media dubbed “The American Superfish,” good fortune had little to do with his record run. “I have seen a young man over four years with such determination, such passion, to be able to perform the way he wanted to here in China,” Michael’s beaming mother Debbie told Lester Holt and Jenna Wolfe from TODAY's Olympic set in Beijing Sunday. “There is not one word that can embrace everything he has done these past nine days at the very highest level.” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26224415/ Quote <p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>
Amelia Posted August 17, 2008 Author Posted August 17, 2008 Joys, burdens of being best face Phelps now By PAULINE ARRILLAGA AP National Writer 17 Aug, 2008 He stood, literally, on top of the world: Everest. The highest mountain on earth. "Another few weary steps and there was nothing above us but the sky," Sir Edmund Hillary wrote of that moment in 1953 when he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first to the zenith. Harder to put into words was what it meant to be first, foremost - on that day the best among mankind. The New Zealander spoke of confused emotions: "awe, wonder, humility, pride, exaltation." Gen. Chuck Yeager uses words like "duty" and "luck," even, to recall the morning, the desert and the little X-1 rocket plane in which he hurtled past the sound barrier - Mach .88, then .96 and finally - that BOOM! - 1.06. "A poke through Jell-0," he shrugged. "Right place, right time," he said in an interview last week with The Associated Press. Understatements for what it means to be the Superman of your day. Now, a Superman in a Speedo has redefined Greatness. And in this case - as with Hillary, as with Yeager, as with all who comprise this fraternity of uber-overachievers - isn't the capital G a must? "It's time to be the best ever," a friend texted our new hero before he became just that. Winningest Olympian. Not just the best. But The Best. Ever. Welcome to the fraternity, Michael Phelps http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/B...mp;SECTION=HOME Quote <p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>
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