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Sports fans and average humans were left dumbfounded last week as Michael Phelps and his USA Swimming teammates shattered records on a daily basis. With 20 world-best marks falling in Bejing—as many as in the last two Olympics combined—what's the scientific secret weapon? And while Olympians crushed 28 records in 1972—the year Mark Spitz won his now-surpassed seven gold medals—what makes Phelps and Co. so much better than swimmers of yesteryear?

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close windowMichael Phelps, America's golden boy and honorary merman, revealed to ESPN that his diet is laden with carbohydrates. No, not the good carbs from Wheaties and whole grain bread; instead, Michael Phelps' calories come from pizza and pasta. Another component of the Phelps diet? Lots of sleep!

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First the fake fireworks used at the Olympic Opening Ceremony were revealed, then the lip syncing nine year old, and now a fake piano?Immediately after the ceremony, some Chinese internet bloggers started to question the genuineness of the piano used by world-renowned Chinese pianist Lang Lang and the little girl who was said to play with him.One blogger said: “Why was the top of the piano not even opened?”Another said: “It must have been pre-recorded! The piano was even shaking!

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Michael Phelps won his seventh gold medal of the Beijing Olympics on Saturday, edging Milorad Cavic by a fingernail, .01 of second in the 100m butterfly on Saturday at the Water Cube.

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Although China has aggressively tested athletes at the Beijing Olympics for performance-enhancing drugs, no case of so-called gene doping has yet been detected.

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US swimmer Michael Phelps made history yesterday when he scooped a record-breaking 11th Olympic gold medal. He has now topped the podium five times in Beijing. After his latest victory, he revealed the secret behind his six-days-a-week, five-hours-a-day training regime: an extraordinary 12,000-calorie daily diet, six times the intake of a normal adult male.

Michael Phelps in action. Photograph: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images

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In what was clearly one of the most shocking deceptions of the Olympics opening ceremonies in Beijing, the national anthem singer was replaced with a “cuter”, younger lip sync artist. Yang Peiyi was actually pre-recorded singing the anthem, but was apparently not attractive enough for the ceremonies and did not meet their standards of “perfection.” Supposedly, it was her teeth that did her in. Chinese officials explained that they wanted the perfect performance - the perfect voice and the perfect look. Perhaps we should forgive Milli Vanilli as well?

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Chinese Olympian Zhang Liang showed up ready to compete in the third heat of the singles rowing event on Saturday. Problem was, he was scheduled to be in the second heat, which had already taken place. He was disqualified, which is probably cool with the Chinese government, considering how laid-back they've been about this whole Olympics thing.

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BEIJING (AP)—One little girl had the looks. The other had the voice.So in a last-minute move demanded by one of China’s highest officials, the two were put together for the Olympic opening ceremony, with one lip-synching “Ode to the Motherland” over the other’s singing.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Georgia may pull its 35-strong Olympic team out of the Beijing Games because of Russian military attacks on its territory, the country's National Olympic Committee told Reuters on Saturday.

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