Michael Phelps is very famous. Here he is Mark Spitz-style on the cover of Sports Illustrated. SI Editor Terry McDonell said, "This is Michael going forward" (via Pink is the New Blog). Stet Sports Blog wishes that Phelps would have taken it a little further and kept his mustache. The Bastardly says, "Regardless of what he looks like, I'm pretty sure he can sleep with any chick on the planet right now. Bastard." Michael Phelps's mom is famous too! "Apparently all,  or a good portion of her Beijing wardrobe is from Chico's," says Preppy Princess, and now Chico's actually has a "Debbie Phelps Collection" featured on its Web site's homepage. You can buy a Persian Luster Zariah Jacket or an Animal Sheen Collins Shirt and look just like Michael Phelps's mom. It's a great way to get closer to your goal of sleeping with Michael Phelps.

He's less famous than Debbie Phelps, but today, Jamaica's Usain Bolt won both the 100- and 200-meter dashes. He's the first man to do that since Carl Lewis in 1984. Rich Karlgaard at Digital Rules thinks that Bolt is a better athlete than Phelps, because "the world's fastest human is really that. The world's best swimmer is merely the best among those given the chance to swim. That's a much smaller pool, as it were." NBC obviously wants everyone to watch the race in primetime, so no clips on their site, but paidContent.org links to other places where you can see them, despite the IOC's best efforts. And if you have a nagging suspicion that YOU are actually the fastest human on earth, you can try to beat Bolt in this game (via Kottke.org).