If you are wondering if the Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps is related to the Olympic gymnast Jaycie Phelps: According to Google and the tv coverage, they are not related, just same last name.

On Saturday, Michael Phelps won his 22nd Olympic medal and 18th Olympic gold medal with his team in the 4x100 meter medley team relay at the 2012 London Olympics: 104 United States 3:29.35-- GREVERS Matthew Reaction Time0.63SplitTimeRank50 m25.481100 m52.581 HANSEN Brendan SplitTimeRank150 m1:20.101200 m1:51.772 PHELPS Michael SplitTimeRank250 m2:15.602300 m2:42.501 ADRIAN[ Read More... ]

Michael Phelps wins gold in his last individual race of the 2012 London Olympics, the 100 meter butterfly, and 3-peats again in these Summer Games, winning gold over the last 3 Olympics in the same event. Phelps had a slow takeoff the block, and slow turn - he was in 7th place after 50m, but he pulled ahead and touched the wall in the short 2 laps race, at 51.21, ahead of South Africa's Chad Le[ Read More... ]

In an interview after finishing all of his races, Ryan Lochte said he wants an easier workout training for the next Summer Olympics in 2016. He added though that it's not up to him, but up to him and his coach as to which strategy they will use. Looks like he is thinking maybe he doesn't need to move 400 pound / 600 pound tires for his training to win gold. A lot of hype was surrounding Lochte[ Read More... ]

Michael Phelps wins gold three Olympics in a row in the men's 200 meter individual medley. [QUOTE] "To be able to win the gold medal and be the first to three-peat, it means something," said Phelps, whose first gold in London was swimming the anchor on the 4x200 freestyle relay. "It's pretty special and something that I'm very happy for." [/QUOTE]2012 Summer Olympics -- Michael Phelps outduels[ Read More... ]

And Michael Phelps has been training with his coach for 16 years. Not sure which club Gabby switched from when she was 14, to go to Chow's Gymnastics club, but gymnastics coaching quality is very important not just for advancement of skills, but safety. As is the gymnastics equipment - pits for safe landing of hard skills as you learn them, a good spot, coaches teaching correct technique and[ Read More... ]

Gymnast Gabby Douglas opted to switch gyms to Chow's gymnastics (Shawn Johnson's coach/club - put it on the map) to make it on the U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team, noting that she felt she "needed better coaching" to make it to the Olympics. Swimmer Missy Franklin opted to stay with her lontime coach and club in Colorado, even though lots of people were telling her to move to Californiia or[ Read More... ]

The Russian uneven bars were awesome - Aliya Mustafina's bar realse/transition combo and dismount named after her, and Viktoria Komova amost stuck hard dismount.

Michael Phelps has won 19 Olympic medals so far, with the latest medals silver in the 200-meter butterfly and gold in the 4x200 team relay. South Africa's Chad Le Clos won gold in the butterfly with 1:52.96 seconds, just 0.05 ahead of Phelps, actually almost a second off his winning time in 2008 of 1:52.03. It was really close, looking like Phelps had it, but Le Clos took an extra stroke to hit[ Read More... ]

Who wasn't surprised by the coaches' decision to put Natalie Coughlin out or the relay finals?! The junior team member that competed with her before even said she though Coughlin had a say in it...must have been before Coughlin's news release for her response.

Ryan Lochte won the 400-meter individual medley on the first day of competition at the London Summer Olympics. Have you checked out his training schedule he had? He moves 400-600 pound tires for his training! Michael Phelps barely qualified for the event in the qualifying round, finishing in 8th place. Perhaps because he had an end row in the pool and couldn't easily see where the leaders[ Read More... ]

Former Cal swimmer and 3-time Olympian, Natalie Coughlin gets replaced by 17 year old Lia Neal and doesn't swim the 4x100 freestyle finals in the London Olympics - even though Natalie had an impressively fast prelim. The USA team finished third and she earns a bronze medal for her prelims swimming for the team. Natalie joins Jenny Thompson and Dara Torres as the most decorated female Olympians in[ Read More... ]

On tv they were saying Michale eats some powdered donuts in his breakfast, along with chocolate chip pancakes, bacon, etc., etc. Shawn Johnson told Ellen on the Ellen show once she had a donut.... Alicia Sacramone's 24-hour Fitness commercial makes sense, vs. the others on the mcDonald's and Coca Cola commercials. Phelps could do them all though probably - he says he eats whatever he wants.

Compare Chellsie Memmel's mostly fruit diet to Michael Phelps target 8,000-10,000 calories per day! http://www.gymchat.com/messageboards/showthread.php?p=78423#post78423 Ok, so swimming is more of an aerobic sport than gymnastics, but gymnastics is a total full body workout. You should eat more than fruit/fruit and chicken/fruit per day to be strong and healthy.

Michael Phelps eats and eats - he says he's supposed to eat like 8,000-10,000 calories a day - and swims and swims. And wins gold! It's working for him, so far he's won gold 2 for 2. Michael Phelps eating commercial: [youtube]v6VDM7NwmRU[/youtube]That's the way to do it - eat strong to work out and live strong. USA gymnast Chellsie Memmel on the other hand eats fruit for breakfast, fruit and[ Read More... ]

good to know that the leos work in the pool too! lol ...and the beach too!

at my gym we just move up to the next level when we're ready - there's no real formal testing. :D