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Article: U.S. Goes And Gets The Golds; Phelps, Coughlin, Peirsol Set Standards
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- The Washington Post
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- August 12, 2008
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It is easy, given the sequoia-sized shadow cast by Michael Phelps
at these Olympics, to forget the other competitors here, each with
their own pursuit, each with a defined goal. It would have been
forgivable again Tuesday, when Phelps simply obliterated everyone,
including South Korea's Park Tae-hwan, and everything, including the
world record, in the 200-meter freestyle, his third medal in three
events at the Summer Games.
But moments after Phelps casually extracted himself from the pool
at the National Aquatics Center, Natalie Coughlin jumped in. The
American women, without a gold to this point, had been doubted.
Coughlin delivered a performance in the 100 backstroke that beat
back such ...