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on June 30, 1985.
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Michael Fred Phelps II was born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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At age 10, he was already a swimmer when he broke the US record for swimming.
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At age 15, he qualified for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. He studied at the University of Michigan, majoring in Sports Marketing
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managed to win 8 medals.
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In Beijing, he won 8 gold medals, a feat never reached by any other athlete
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In 2012 he became the most medal-ever athlete in the history of the Olympic Games with a total of 22 medals won in three Olympic Games and the first to win the same event three consecutive times, a fact that he repeated three times in the test of 4 x 200 meters free, in the 200 meters styles and in the 100 meters butterfly
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plus six Olympic medals at the Rio Games, totaling 28 in his career.
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Along with coach Bob Bowman, he travels the planet talking about his trajectory to the great business leaders. Son Boomer and wife Nicole form the basis of this new Michael Phelps, a man who today divides his strokes into three lanes: the legacy of life as an athlete, the new career step and, of course, the family.