¡¡¡¡(From Wikipedia)Michael Fred Phelps, born on June 30, 1985, is an American swimmer£®He has won 14 career Olympic gold medals, the most by any Olympian£®As of 2008, he also holds seven world records in swimming£®
¡¡¡¡Phelps holds the record for the most gold medals won at a single Olympics with the eight golds he won at the 2008 Olympic Games£®With this record, he surpassed Mark Spitz, who was also a swimmer and had held the previous gold medal total with the seven that he won at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games£®
¡¡¡¡Overall, Phelps has won 16 Olympic medals£ºsix gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing£®In winning these medals, he has twice equaled Soviet gained Alexander Dityatin's record of eight medals(of any type)at a single Olympics; Dityatin gained eight at the 1980 Summer Olympics, while Phelps won eight medals at both the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics£®Out of his eight gold medals from Beijing, five were won in individual events, tying the record for individual gold medals at a single Games originally set by Eric Heiden in the 1980 Winter Olympics and equaled by Vitaly Scherbo at the 1992 Summer Games£®Phelps ranks second in total career Olympic medals, after Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina, who won a total of 18 medals(nine gold)spanning three Olympic Games£®
¡¡¡¡Throughout the 2008 Olympics, Phelps was questioned by the press if perhaps his achievements were ¡°too good to be true¡±, a reference to unsupported rumors that Phelps may be taking performance enhancing drugs£®In response, Phelps noted that he had signed up for Project Believe, a project by the United States Anti-Doping Agency in which U£®S£®Olympians can volunteer to be tested in excess of the World Anti-Doping Agency guidelines£®During the Games, Phelps was tested nine times, and passed all of them£®
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How many Olympic gold medals has Phelps won?________£®
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8
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16
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7
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14
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Which athlete also has won eight medals at a single Olympics?
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Eric Heiden
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Alexander Dityatin
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Mark Spitz
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Vitaly Scherbo
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What can we infer from the last paragraph?
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His achievements were ¡°too good to be true¡±£®
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Phelps may be taking performance enhancing drugs£®
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The achievements he got were all by his own ability£®
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Phelps had signed up for Project Believe£®
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The passage least probably appears in a ________£®