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50 stunning Olympic moments No 42: Michael Phelps goes big in Beijing

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Monday, 25 June 2012 (on June 25, 2012)
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The boy from blue-collar Baltimore was desperate to become the greatest Olympian of all time – and achieved the improbable feat by collecting eight gold medals in the Beijing pool in 2008

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