American Michael Phelps has begun his quest for an unprecedented eight gold medals at a single Olympics by winning his first gold medal in his first event.
Phelps shattered another of his own world records.
Phelps won the 400-meter Individual Medley race early Sunday at China's National Aquatics Center in Beijing with a blistering time of 4:03.84. Phelps had set the previous best of 4:05.25 at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in June.
Phelps was under world record pace at every turn. Even so, he said immediately after the event, 'To be honest, I did not really feel that great. And going into the ready room, I started getting these, kind of like chills going through my body.'
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