Huffington Magazine Issue 10 | Page 38

Voices his record setting 22nd Olympic medal, but was quick to reassure the world that his student swims faster than he does... CANADA DAN ROSS NORTH KOREA American swimmer Michael Phelps stood on the Olympic podium for a record 22nd time... Child swimmer Michael Phelps set an Olympic record to save his family’s life... (I have to thank my friend Rahul for this one.) INDIA TEXAS Politicians were outraged to discover that USA Swimming had outsourced the all-time record for Olympic medals to Indian swimmer Michael Phelps... Inspired by the unprecedented 22nd Olympic medal won by Davy Crockett descendant Michael Phelps, Texas governor Rick Perry announced that his state will secede from the Union... SOUTH AFRICA South African swimmer Michael Phelps overcame an unfortunate giraffe-related incident to ride his prosthetic flippers into the history books... NORWAY As he took home his record 22nd medal, Norwegian Michael Phelps thanked the polar bears who trained him to swim in the icy waters of Svalbard... KENYA President Obama’s long lost cousin, Michael Phelps, set the alltime mark for Olympic medals... HUFFINGTON 08.19.12 My fellow Americans, it’s not that we All of shouldn’t be proud of them deserve the fact that Michael our fullest Phelps is one of our attention, even own—it’s that one of if we have to the most wonderful suffer through things about watch#NBCfails to ing sports is seeing see them soar.” greatness incarnate, regardless of where it comes from. And every four years, we receive the extraordinary gift of having the opportunity to witness the highest, fastest, and strongest people on the planet do what they do best. All of them deserve our fullest attention, even if we have to suffer through #NBCfails to see them soar.