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7th gold and 7th world record wait for Phelps on Saturday

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Mini Kapoor Posted: Aug 16, 2008 at 0211 hrs IST
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To convey his uniqueness, she reaches for just one adjective: “complete”. He’s got everything, she says, physically, physiologically and genetically. “He’s taken the raw material and done the work.” For instance, she explains, he is “fantastic” at competing. “On the blocks, they say it’s 90 per cent mental. He has the mental ability to win.”

But these world records? Is it some kind of a statement, this taking of each of the first six golds with a world record?

No, says Casey, that’s what it takes to win.

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