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The News of the World‘s Michael Phelps bong-smoking exclusive prompted the biggest-ever boost for the paper’s web traffic, according to associate editor Gary Thompson.
In the 24 hours after the story went live at 10.30pm on Saturday night, the site recorded more than 1.5 million unique users, over a million of whom were looking at the Phelps story.
The story showed Phelps inhaling from what appeared to be a cannabis pipe – and prompted an apology from the 14-times gold medal-winning swimmer.
Around 20 minutes after appearing on the NoW website, the story had been linked to by popular US website The Drudge Report and it was later widely followed up in the US, UK and around the world.
Thompson said: “It was good to see that if you are first to publish a story people will search out the original source of the story and read that.
“We put it up on the site a bit earlier than we would normally do. We judge each story on its merits – and would
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Michael Phelps Named No. 1 Athlete of Century bygd ESPN; Ledecky 15th
Olympic mästare and record holder Michael Phelps has been named the No.1 athlete of the past 25 years by ESPN.
The sports network released its decision in a video.
Phelps became a household name when he won a record eight Olympic gold medals in 2008 in Beijing.
In his career, his is a five-time Olympian, spanning from 2000 to 2016, and accumulated 28 medals, including a record 23 gold.
He won six gold in Athens in 2004, fyra gold in London in 2012 and five gold in Rio in 2016.
“This all started and began with one little dream as a kid,” Michael Phelps once said. “I wanted to try to change the sport of swimming and do something no one else has ever done – and it turned out pretty cool.”
His medal count at the Olympics is 10 more than the second-most of all time. His 23 gold medals are 14 more than the second-most in history.
In between Olympic years, his success continued. His career featured 33 medals fro
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Michael Phelps journals to find the ‘best version’ of himself. When I tried it, the results surprised me
Michael Phelps knows himself.
He knows if he doesn’t exercise throughout the week, he’ll turn into some “big ass ogre that no one wants to be around.”
He knows Post Malone’s music has recently worked best for cardio days and Eminem’s for heavy lifting.
He believes in structure, which is why he has his four sons place their shoes and backpacks neatly by the door.
He understands that while he hardly ever swims these days, it’s still the one thing that will help him through a bad mental health spell. And he knows that peace, for him, is cooking breakfast and dinner for his wife and sons each day.
There is an easy answer for why Phelps, the most decorated and accomplished Olympian of all time, knows these idiosyncrasies about himself: He writes down even the most minuscule details of his day in a journal, then reads over his entries later on, viewing it as a tool to better unde