Summary: The Michael Phelps story drew record numbers of viewers worldwide to the Beijing Games last August. For the first time in many an Olympiad, there was a larger-than-life name, face, and body to follow. By the time the swimmers first stepped onto the deck of the Water Cube, the swimming venue that housed all the pool races over the first half of the Games, we the fans were well immersed in the Phelps mystique...
