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Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:00 AM

Phelps, Phelps, Phelps

The American phenom has been annoyingly omnipresent. That's too bad, because there are other things happening, and because he's not annoying.
King Kaufman

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  • Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:52 AM

    Coverage Also Confusing.

    I'm just turning on the Olympics occasionally, and I guess they just assume I know everything about Phelps already. They say he's won 11 gold medals, but before the Olympics they said he could win a total of eight gold medals. Did they add three more events just for Phelps? What's the story?

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