Where Are Those 8 Gold Medals? 菲尔普斯

Michael Phelps reflects on his record-breaking Olympics.

Our ESPN colleague Jerry Michele sat down with Phelps and calls him "serene", like a man who achieved everything he'd hoped to , which of course is exactly what he did. Here are some of their conversation/.

You think separates the people who are merely gifted from those like you who in this instance won?

You know for me when I watch/ all the sport, you know when I watch, you know, when I watch Tiger, when I watch Federer and I watch Nadal, the best athletes can compete under any circumstances. And you know, no matter what it is, no matter what the pressure, you can always overcome anything that is put in your way，you know when Jordan was sick, he still put up 60 points.

When you won the 100 butterfly by one, one hundredth of a second, what were you thinking about the role of fame, the role of luck?

After the race, Crack said to me, he goes, you have that angels with you or something, he goes, I have no idea what it is(he goes). And you know I feel that, yeah, you know that there has to be luck in it, there has to be some luck involved, that you know everything has been pretty much perfect, you know for me to be able to do what I just did.

You got eight gold medals now, where are they?

It's a great question. I saw them earlier, I think my agent has them, I put them all on this morning, it looked pretty cool, it was a pretty neat feeling.

You put them on just to see them or with a photo.

Just to see them.

You're 23; you've achieved everything you wanted to achieve, what are your goals now?

I wanna change sport to something. I look up to Michael Jordan, what he did in sport of basketball, how he completely changed it, this sport has changed my life in so many ways and you know, I just wanna other people to be able to be a part of that.

菲尔普斯就他在奥运会上打破的记录做出回应。

我们ESPN的同事Jerry Michele现在正和菲尔普斯坐在一起，说他很“平静” ，就像一个得到了一切他想要的东西的人一样，当然，他确实做到了。下面是他们两个之间的对话。

很多人像你一样有天赋，但是你却赢了，你觉得你们之间的差别是什么呢？

你知道，对我来说，当我观看比赛的时候，当我看Tiger, Federer 和Nadal参加比赛的时候，我发现，最好的运动员在任何情况下都能参加比赛。你知道，无论是什么，无论是多大的压力，你都能克服前进路上的一切困难。你知道，乔丹生病的时候参加比赛仍然能投得60分。

当你以超过第二名0.01秒的成绩赢得100米蝶泳的时候，你怎样认为名声的作用，运气的作用？

比赛之后，Crack过来对我说“你有天使相助”之类的话。我不知道他指的是什么。你知道，我确实感觉到，肯定是运气，肯定含有运气的成分在里面。你知道所有的一切都非常完美，能够做到我想做的。

你获得了8枚金牌，现在在哪里呢？

这个问题很好。我之前看见过，我想我的经理人现在保管着，今天早上我戴上的。看上去非常酷，非常整洁的感觉。

你戴上他们只是为了看到他们或者为了拍照？

只是为了看一下。

现在你23岁了，你已经获得了你想要的一切。今后你的目标是什么呢？

我想把运动改变成更有意义的事情。我一直像乔丹看齐，他在篮球运动中所做的事情彻底改变了这项运动。这项运动也在很多方面改变了我的生活。我希望其他人也可以是这项运动的一部分。