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Phelps named top sportsman by Sports Illustrated

Published 12/03/08

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Phelps achieved another unprecedented feat: the first swimmer honored as Sports Illustrated's sportsman of the year.

Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps appears on the cover of the Dec. 8 Sports Illustrated as the magazine's sportsman of the year.
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Phelps broke Mark Spitz's iconic record with eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics in August and became the winningest Olympian ever with his 14 career victories. Olympians in other sports have earned the award before in its 54-year history, but never a swimmer. In 1972, the year Spitz won his medals, UCLA basketball coach John Wooden and tennis great Billie Jean King were honored by the magazine.

"Honestly, I feel like the same person I've been my whole...

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