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Just when you think Phelps' run can't get any better, it does

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Saturday, August 16, 2008

BEIJING -- Michael Phelps was in trouble. Big trouble. Churning desperately to the wall in the 100-meter butterfly Saturday, chasing Milorad Cavic and a historic seventh gold medal in these Olympics, Phelps was in that worst of all places for a butterflyer approaching the finish: No man's land. His strokes had not timed out in this most rhythmic of all swimming disciplines, and now Phelps was left with two bad alternatives. He could ride his last full stroke to the wall -- gliding in. Or ...

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