Gold Swimming, butterfly Form guide At the World Championships in 2011 she finished second in the 200m butterfly, and was only 0.04sec away from going one better.
France is on a wave of sporting patriotism and high drama as it hopes to add yet more medals to its extraordinary run of Olympic gold swimming successes.
Amy Van Dyken has won six Olympic gold swimming medals but 18 months ago she was told she would never walk again after a quad bike accident left her fighting for her life and paralysed just below the waist.
-Simone Manuel, upon becoming first black to win a gold swimming medal.
Phelps, the most successful Olympian ever with 14 golds, swam and won eight events in Beijing in 2008.
Despite the distractions of constantly clashing with the Australian swimming authorities over a variety of minor infractions, she easily won the gold in swimming's marquee event, the 100-meter freestyle, in Melbourne in 1956 and Rome in 1960.
(Phelps also earned a gold for swimming in Crocker's place in the preliminaries).
Several Olympians have gone on to coach at Cal .Karen Moe Thornton, associate athletic director, won a gold in swimming in 1972.
Even though athletics won six gold and swimming 19, they fell short of the ASC's overall medals target.
In the six years leading to his gold-medal swim in Beijing, Phelps was beaten in the event once.
