{"id":13176,"date":"2012-08-05T02:05:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T00:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/olympics-swimming-i-did-everything-i-wanted-to-do-says-phelps\/"},"modified":"2012-08-05T02:05:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T00:05:57","slug":"olympics-swimming-i-did-everything-i-wanted-to-do-says-phelps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/olympics-swimming-i-did-everything-i-wanted-to-do-says-phelps\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics-Swimming-I did everything I wanted to do, says Phelps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Alan Baldwin<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Aug 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Michael Phelps kept his word after<br \/>\nswimming into history with one last, immense Olympic appearance<br \/>\non Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The greatest Olympic swimmer, and to many the greatest<br \/>\nathlete as well, called time on his sensational career with an<br \/>\n18th gold medal and the recognition that he had done everything<br \/>\nhe had set out to do.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Asked why he had to go, when he was still so obviously a<br \/>\nwinner, still dominant and able to perform, the 27-year-old<br \/>\nAmerican referred the questioner back to something he had<br \/>\npromised himself long ago.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told myself I never want to swim when I&#8217;m 30,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No offence to those people who are 30, but that is<br \/>\nsomething that I always said to myself. That will be in three<br \/>\nyears and I just don&#8217;t want to swim for another three years.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I&#8217;ve been able to do everything I wanted. I&#8217;ve been<br \/>\nable to put my mind to the goals that I wanted to achieve and<br \/>\n(coach) Bob (Bowman) and I have somehow managed to do every<br \/>\nsingle thing.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think if you can say that about your career, there&#8217;s no<br \/>\nneed to move forward. Time for other things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alan Baldwin LONDON Aug 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Michael Phelps kept his word after swimming into history with one last, immense Olympic appearance on Saturday. The greatest Olympic swimmer, and to many the greatest athlete as well, called time on his sensational career with an 18th gold medal and the recognition that he had done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}