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September 29, 2011, Thursday
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IT'S still September, and Michael Phelps has already been training for six weeks.
He couldn't say that in any of the last three years since his record-setting Beijing Olympics. The 16-time medalist is swimming more yards per week now - 10 months before the London Games - than he ever did in the lead-up to this past summer's world championships.
"It's going ..." Phelps paused to search for the right word, then settled on: "better."
"I'm a lot happier," he said on Tuesday. "There's a lot more drive inside of me."
The drive that carried him to eight gold medals in 2008 hasn't always been there in the years since. But now another Olympic meet is looming, his last one. Phelps won seven medals, including four golds, at Shanghai worlds, when he acknowledged he wasn't at peak fitness with only about eight months of preparation.
"Hopefully, I can get back to some kind of physical level like I was in Beijing," Phelps said. "That was the best shape I've ever been in my life. If I could work on getting close to that, I'll be able to accomplish the goals that I have."
Phelps was in Manhattan to run and swim with eight-time Winter Games medalist Apolo Anton Ohno, who's training for the New York City Marathon.
He couldn't say that in any of the last three years since his record-setting Beijing Olympics. The 16-time medalist is swimming more yards per week now - 10 months before the London Games - than he ever did in the lead-up to this past summer's world championships.
"It's going ..." Phelps paused to search for the right word, then settled on: "better."
"I'm a lot happier," he said on Tuesday. "There's a lot more drive inside of me."
The drive that carried him to eight gold medals in 2008 hasn't always been there in the years since. But now another Olympic meet is looming, his last one. Phelps won seven medals, including four golds, at Shanghai worlds, when he acknowledged he wasn't at peak fitness with only about eight months of preparation.
"Hopefully, I can get back to some kind of physical level like I was in Beijing," Phelps said. "That was the best shape I've ever been in my life. If I could work on getting close to that, I'll be able to accomplish the goals that I have."
Phelps was in Manhattan to run and swim with eight-time Winter Games medalist Apolo Anton Ohno, who's training for the New York City Marathon.
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