“but for those who consider sports a test of human limits,there may be no more impressive feat than what michael phelps will do over nine days in august. he will swim eight finals (five individual, three relays) and 17 races overall, including prelims and semis, in a quest to become the only olympic athlete to win eight gold medals at a single games…. phelps will burn a marathon’s worth of calories in the pool every day for nine days, on his way to swimming more than 30 miles.”
what a bad ass (via mattirick).
