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Article: Hits the mark By narrowest margin, Phelps ties Spitz's standard.(Sports)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- August 16, 2008
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Byline: Clay Latimer, Rocky Mountain News
Shock. Fear. Relief. Euphoria.
Choose your feelings.
Michael Phelps experienced all those emotions during the 100-meter butterfly, a harrowingly close race for the indefatigable American, who wondered if he finally would come up short in his historic quest for eight Olympic gold medals.
"I had to take my goggles off, to make sure '1' was next to my name," he said.
In the end, though, it was the same old story Friday (today in Beijing) at the Water Cube, with Phelps pouring it on, then stretching his unusually long arms to out-touch Milorad Cavic of Serbia by a margin too narrow to ...