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Hi, now in my book it has been telling about many of Michael's swim story's through out his life. The book is kind of divided up into different sections, not really chapters. Each section tells about different swim races that Michael raced at the Olympics on his journey to 8 gold medals at a single Olympics. He tells a story about how another Olympic swimmer from another country named Ian Thorpe. Michael and Ian built a rivalry through out there swimming careers. Ian swims for the Australian team. Michael of course for the USA. Ian is one of the best ever for his country, Michael is one of the best for his. Michael tells about a time before the Athen's Olympics in 2004. I guess Ian or someone associated with Ian was bragging how Ian was so much better than Michael and Michael wasn't going to break Mark Spitz's record of 8 golds. This furiated Michael. Michael is the kind of guy where he uses anything he can for motivation. This defiantly motivated Michael. Michael got the words that were said about him and put them on paper, and put the paper in his training locker. He would look at it everyday before he trained and this would motivate him to work really hard. Thats pretty much all I have read so far.