USA Swimming declared Thursday to suspend Michael Phelps from competition and withdraw financial support for the next three months as one of his photos showing him smoking marijuana surfaced. The organization’s board of directors voted on the decision, saying the intent was to send Phelps a “strong...

Michael Phelps has his eight gold medals, his seven world records, has captivated the attention of an estimated four billion worldwide for more than a week. Phelps’s success in winning eight gold medals, consummated Sunday when the Americans won the 4 x 100 individual medley relay in world-record...

That the best relay swimmer of a generation should go it mostly alone on a daily basis has almost an old-school feel. No uber-controlling coach on the deck barking out orders, and certainly no one telling him what he can and can’t do out of the pool. If Jason Lezak needed someone to time his practices...

Full name: Michael Fred Phelps Nickname(s): MP Nationality: Flag of the United States United States Stroke(s): Butterfly, Individual Medley, Freestyle, Backstroke Club: Club Wolverine, University of Michigan Date of birth: June 30, 1985 (1985-06-30) (age 23) Place of birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United...

Michael Phelps dominated his first event of the Beijing Olympics on Sunday, crushing his own world record and all hopes of his challengers with a time of 4 minutes, 3.84 seconds in the 400-meter individual medley. This race was thought to be a potential stumbling block for Phelps in an individual race...