By Gold Medal Mel Stewart on SwimSwam This is an editorial. These opinions are my own, not on behalf of SwimSwam, its staff, or its partners. I write as someone who swam year-round from 1972 to 1996, won Olympic gold medals, and lived the national team experience for nearly 12 years.
With less than a month to go until the games start actually mattering, the Baltimore Ravens are in the final stages of preparation as they gear up for arguably their most important season in franchise history.
Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian in history, recently delivered a compelling message to the Baltimore Ravens during their training camp. His visit, which included swim lessons and motivational advice, highlighted the importance of preparation, focus, and embracing discomfort to achieve greatness.
Last month, several players on the Ravens noted that they don't know how to swim to make full use of the team's new pool in their renovated athletic performance facility.
The Baltimore Ravens got some swimming lessons from perhaps the best teacher in the world as they linked up with Michael Phelps on Tuesday. The all-time
The Ravens can now soar and swim thanks to Phelps' guidance
Michael Phelps has been associated with the Baltimore Ravens plenty of times before, having grown up in the Baltimore suburbs before making it big as the most decorated Olympic swimmer in the history of the games.
By Braden Keith on SwimSwam USA Swimming has responded to the public criticism from Michael Phelps, Rowdy Gaines, Ryan Lochte, and others with a statement attributed to interim CEO Bob Vincent.
By Gold Medal Mel Stewart on SwimSwam This editorial is by Rowdy Gaines, a three-time Olympic gold medalist from the 1984 LA Games. Known as the “Voice of Swimming,” Rowdy has served as NBC Sports’ lead analyst for over 30 years.
By Braden Keith on SwimSwam Two of the biggest names in the history of American swimming have voiced frustration at the performance of Team USA in Singapore this week at the World Championships.
By Braden Keith on SwimSwam The Baltimore Ravens asked, and the GOAT obliged. In a video posted to Instagram this week, members of the NFL football team asked one of their most famous fans Michael Phelps for a swim lesson.
As a Baltimore native, Olympic legend Michael Phelps is a Baltimore Ravens fan. So when a member of the team called on him for help, he answered. Ravens star Marlon Humphrey along with Ronnie Stanley, Kyle Hamilton and Charlie Kolar recently made an "impassioned plea" with Phelps to teach them how to swim.
Michael Phelps is both the owner of 23 Olympic swimming gold medals and a Baltimore native and big Ravens fan, so he's the man some Ravens players appealed to when they wanted to learn to swim.
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Michael Phelps thinks the Olympics need to be much stricter when it comes to addressing athletes who have previously failed drug tests. Amid questions
Michael Phelps certainly is not jealous of the success that French swimmer Leon Marchand is having at the 2024 Summer Olympics. His reaction to Marchand’s dramatic win in the 200 butterfly final is proof of that.
Katie Ledecky captured gold in the women’s 1500 freestyle swim at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, and something she did during the race left Michael Phelps surprised.
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Former Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, winner of a record 23 gold medals for Team USA, testified on Capitol Hill Tuesday evening over failures by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to properly enforce doping violations.
Five-time Olympian Michael Phelps recently highlighted his yearslong battle with depression and pushed for more attention for athletes' mental health ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Michael Phelps knows a thing or two about performing well on the biggest stages.
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