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For keeping pace with Phelps you need to swim faster than a shark!


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, Oct 21 (ANI): When American television presenter Bill Boggs tried to compete with a swimmer in the pool, little did he know that he would be up against Olympic gold Olympic Gold is the official video game of the XXV Olympic Summer Games, hosted by Barcelona, Spain in 1992. It was released for the Sega consoles, Mega Drive/Genesis and Master System, and Sega's handheld, Game Gear.  medallist Michael Phelps For the American biophysicist, see .
Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American swimmer and World Record Holder in several events.
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Boggs, 65, who used to swim competitively, was doing laps at the New York Athletic Club when he noticed someone swimming at a very fast pace.

"The guy next to me is like a shark . . . he's pushing off the wall swimming the length of the pool under water, while kicking on his back. 'Hmm,' I think, 'this guy's good'," the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10  quoted Boggs as saying.

"We hit the wall together at one point and I give it all I've got to stay with him, and after three strokes I look up and he's already coming back," he recalled.

The speed demon left the pool before Boggs finished, and when he got out, the attendant let him know who he was competing with.

"You were trying to race Michael Phelps," the attendant told him. (ANI)

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