Michael Phelps Wears Olympic Medals, Speedo at Basketball Game (2024)

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Did Michael Phelps wear Speedo? ›

Fifteen years ago, Michael Phelps won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics wearing a high-tech swimsuit with a catchy name, the Speedo LZR Racer.

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

His feet have been referred to as "fins" by the media, because he wears a size 14 shoe.

Joe Gromek, president and CEO of Warnaco, Speedo's parent company, presented the $1 million check to Phelps.

Debuting at a time when long-sleeved bathing wear was the norm, the swimsuit was banned from some beaches for being too revealing. It went on to revolutionise the swimwear industry. The Racerback was also the swimsuit that made Speedo a household name and paved the way for their future controversial innovations.

Most gold medalists at the 2004 Games wore Speedo's Fastskin suit. For the Beijing Games, Speedo introduced the LZR Racer suit, which was touted as the world's fastest swimsuit. Made from a compressive, water-repellent and chlorine-resistant fabric, it was said to reduce drag and provide the most streamlined shape.

Michael Phelps is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished athletes of all time. He captured more Olympic medals, World Championships, US National Titles, and world records than any other swimmer in history.

Michael Phelps was a swimmer who brought worldwide attention to the sport. He gained particular attention when he won a record number of gold medals at the 2008 Olympics. Phelps added to his total at the 2012 and the 2016 Olympics. At the end of the 2016 games he had earned 28 medals, which included a record 23 gold.

The founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, once said: "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well."

British rower and three-time Olympic gold medalist Pete Reed is reported to hold the largest recorded lung capacity of 11.68 litres; US swimmer Michael Phelps is also said to have a lung capacity of around 12 litres.

How many calories a day did Michael Phelps eat? ›

He consumed between 8,000-10,000 calories a day divided into three big meals. The recommended daily intake is 2,000 calories a day for women and 2,500 for men, which means Phelps was eating up to four times as much as recommended for an average grown-up man.

From the age of 15, when he became the youngest male athlete to make the U.S. team in 68 years, to the age of 31, when he retired, Phelps set the high bar in swimming over and over. To this day, he remains the most decorated Olympian of all time.

Michael Phelps is a retired American Olympic swimmer and corporate endorser with an estimated net worth of $100 million.

Phelps was diagnosed with ADHD in sixth grade. But while he couldn't sit through class without fidgeting, he could swim for up to three hours at the pool after school.

But as a general rule of thumb, if your boardshorts have a mesh liner, you can skip the underwear. And if they don't have a liner, you can either do the same or opt into donning a type of underwear, like a pair of swim briefs, that's designed to keep you comfortable over many hours in and around the water.

The music is something of a pre-race ritual for Phelps, in addition to cupping. “I have walked out to race with my headphones on throughout my whole career and listen to music until the last possible moment,” he told the Guardian in 2005, just after winning six gold medals in the Athens Olympics.

The LZR racer was lined with very thin, yet very stiff polyurethane plastic panels. Polyurethane is a plastic material that can "reject water" Haake tells Inverse. "They reduced the skin friction even further with those polyurethane panels," he says. "And then that's when the whole world of swimming exploded."