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Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps will race a great white shark on July 23 for this year's Shark Week. The sports star will be featured next month on Discovery Channel for the special titled, 'Phelps.
Man vs Shark: Michael Phelps loses race against Great White Shark, watch; Man vs Shark: Michael Phelps loses race against Great White Shark, watch Olympic champion Michael Phelps swam a 100m stretch of warm Bahamas water in 38.1 seconds but lost out by two seconds to a Great White Shark swimming the same course, moving at a speed of 25mph.
In July 2017, Michael Phelps, nicknamed “Flying Fish”, swam a 100m race with a large white shark. This historical swim was shown by the popular wildlife channel called Discovery. Phelps, of course, demonstrated incredible peaks of human physical capabilities, but even his maximum speed in water is 8-10 kilometers per hour, that is, slower than that of a shark.
Michael Phelps was born on June 30 in 1985 in Baltimore, the third child of Fred and Debbie Phelps.. Back in 2000, Michael Phelps was a 15-year old phenom, the youngest to make the U.S.. In August of 2008, Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian in the history of U.S. sports when he won eight gold medals - one for every event he competed in - at the Beijing Olympics.
Phelps will swim against a great white shark in the Discovery special “Phelps Vs. Shark: Great Gold Vs Great White” as part of the eight-day marathon of shark-themed programming. “He is our.
Even if “Phelps vs. Shark” turns out to be as great as the concept sounds, and it really is a no holds barred swimming contest between Michael Phelps and a massive ocean-dwelling killing.
Phelps recorded a speed of 38:1 seconds to the shark's 36:1 seconds. The competition was featured on the Discovery Channel under the title Phelps vs. Shark Great Gold vs. Great White. It was featured as part of its famous Shark Week summer programming, BBC News reported. However, he was not actually racing next to the shark.