Here's a young Michael Phelps hoping to 'get faster' in the pool

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Here's a young Michael Phelps hoping to 'get faster' in the pool
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Well before Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian in history, he was just an exceptionally talented teenager hoping to win a medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics.*

This 2001 interview with the young swimmer recently resurfaced on Reddit. In it, he discusses his life as a teenage swimming prodigy and his experience at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where he failed to medal. Though Phelps **w has 22 gold medals on (http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/sport/michael-phelps-ryan-lochte-swimming/)thanks to his Thursday night win, back then his goal was to "just get faster."

That, and to get his learner's permit.*

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