Michael Phelps - San Francisco,CA
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N 37° 48.494 W 122° 24.899
10S E 551496 N 4184699
A sculpture at Madame Tussaud's in San Francisco.
Waymark Code: WMM3NX
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/15/2014
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This sculpture of Phelps is located in the free area of the museum. Phelps is bare chested and wearing spandex swimming shorts. He's wearing a swimming caps and a medal.
"Michael Fred Phelps was born on June 30, 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a retired American swimmer and he holds world records in several events. Phelps won eight medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Six of those were gold. These medals made him tie the record for medals at a single Olympics. Alexander Dityatin has held this record since 1980.[5] In 2008, Phelps won eight swimming gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Beijing. This broke Mark Spitz's record for most gold medals in a single Olympics.[6] Spitz had won seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won another four gold and two silver medals. In total he has won 22 Olympic medals, a record. Eighteen of these are gold medals, two times as many as the former record." (
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