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2008 Beijing Olympics - Tennis
August 14, 2008
In a 2004 autobiography Beneath the Surface, Phelps revealed how he averaged 75km a week in training and had probably taken no more than four days off in the four years leading up to the Athens Olympics in 2004, none of them holidays.
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"There are times in my sleep when I literally dream my race from start to finish,"2 he wrote.
"Other nights ... I visualise to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, then swim back again for as many times as I need to finish the race."
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