FBOY PROBLEMS on Instagram: "genetic phenomenon Michael Phelps was already rewriting expectations at 15, stepping onto the blocks at the Sydney 2000 Olympics as the youngest male swimmer on the U.S. team in nearly seven decades. He didn’t medal, but finishing fifth in the 200m butterfly at that age signaled something unusual — the mix of raw physical talent, work ethic, and race IQ that coaches kept calling “scary” for a teenager. That debut became the launchpad for the dominance that followed,

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