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Phelps getting settled in Rome

ESPN.com news services

Friday, July 24, 2009

ROME -- Michael Phelps stumbled through his answer, struggling to put the words together, and finally offered up an apology. "I'm kind of out of it right now," he said Friday, sitting in a marble-adorned Italian hall erected by Il Duce himself. "I just woke up from a nap. Sorry about that." It's been a mighty busy year. He became the winningest Olympian ever, popped up on one TV show after another, pumped out another book, was the subject of a most embarrassing picture, anguished over whether ...

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