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Michael Phelps

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30 Jun 1985

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Zhang Yufei is aiming to compete at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. Photo: Eugene Lee

Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games

Quest for greatness in the pool driving Olympic swimming champion Zhang Yufei

The 27-year-old is the most decorated Olympian in Chinese history, with 10 medals across the past two Olympic Games.

4 hours ago

Beijing Winter Olympics 2022

How Olympians think about success and failure – and what we can learn from them

12 Jan 2026 - 8:08PM

Trending in China

China aircraft carrier allows use of naked flames for TCM therapy popular with troops

26 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM

2025 National Games

Mental barriers needn’t hold Hongkongers back at National Games: ex-swimmer Kong

Now a mental health advocate who turned her competitive struggles into insight, she says key is ‘a balance between enjoyment and performing’.

5 Nov 2025 - 8:00AM

Yvette Kong prepares to take part in the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge in West Kowloon Cultural District. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Swimming

Yu Zidi close to medal again as McIntosh, US relay women rule at swimming worlds

Summer McIntosh equals Phelps feat with her fourth gold at World Aquatics Championships, US break world record in women’s 4x100m medley.

3 Aug 2025 - 11:26PM

Swimming

Chinese record under threat from Canada’s McIntosh at swimming worlds

Singapore-bound teen is first swimmer to set three world records in different events since Michael Phelps did it at 2008 Beijing Olympics.

24 Jul 2025 - 1:24AM

Fame and celebrity

Meet Nicole Johnson, Olympic swimming legend Michael Phelps’ wife

The couple met at the 2007 ESPY Awards but had an on-and-off relationship before finally getting married in 2016 – they exchanged vows thrice

13 Aug 2024 - 7:00PM

Michael Phelps and his wife Nicole Johnson, who has stood by him through his mental health struggles. Photo: @mrs.nicolephelps/Instagram

SCMP Highlights

Swimming legend Phelps on China’s Pan, Singapore’s uber-rich: 7 highlights

From Michael Phelps refusing to ‘point finger’ at China’s Pan to Singapore’s uber-rich foreigners not flaunting wealth, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.

9 Aug 2024 - 12:35PM

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Analysis | Doping, double standards and how TUEs muddy the waters of China row with the US

The accusations flung at China’s swimmers in Paris form part of a larger row between the world’s two superpowers.

8 Aug 2024 - 5:26AMvideocam

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Paris 2024 Olympic Games

US legend Phelps refuses to ‘point finger’ at Chinese Olympics star Pan Zhanle

Swimming star hails Olympic 100m sprint champion Noah Lyles for revealing mental health struggle, ‘he was vulnerable at his happiest moment’.

9 Aug 2024 - 11:06AMvideocam

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Pan Zhanle’s scorching swim in the Olympic 100m freestyle final is being met with some scepticism. Photo: Xinhua

Fame and celebrity

Meet Snoop Dogg’s ‘boss lady’ wife of 27 years, Shante Broadus

Snoop Dogg and his long-time wife Shante Broadus celebrated their 27th anniversary in June – here’s what you need to know about the ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot’ rapper’s entrepreneurial partner

5 Aug 2024 - 6:00AM

Shante Broadus has been married to US rapper Snoop Dogg for 27 years. Photos: @bosslady_ent/Instagram

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

While you were sleeping: tennis silver for China and 4 other things you missed

French swimming star took another Michael Phelps record and a fourth gold of the Games, while the host nation knocked Argentina out of the football.

3 Aug 2024 - 7:54AMvideocam

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Olympic champion Popovici says Pan world record an ‘amazing’ performance

Romanian David Popovici finished third in 100m freestyle event, 48 hours after winning 200m freestyle gold at Paris Games.

3 Aug 2024 - 6:54AM

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Ng unsure he can call himself ‘Olympian’ after being unable to finish triathlon

The Hongkonger said he had made a good start in the swim leg before his wetsuit was grabbed at and torn, making him feel he was ‘swimming with a parachute’.

1 Aug 2024 - 11:29AM

Jason Ng’s wetsuit was torn about 200 metres into the swim leg. Photo: Mike Chan

Fame and celebrity

The next Michael Phelps? Meet swimmer Caeleb Dressel, at the Paris Olympics

The Florida swimmer, who is competing in the Paris Olympics 2024, has already set multiple records and scored deals with Speedo, Omega, Toyota and Nobull

31 Jul 2024 - 6:00AM

Who is the next Michael Phelps, American swimmer Caeleb Dressel? Photo: @caelebdressel/Instagram

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Explainer | Little sign of Olympic truce as conflict rages around the world

The International Olympic Committee revived the Olympic truce in 1992, but hostilities continue in Ukraine and Gaza, while tensions between the US and China go far beyond the battle to top the medal table.

21 Jul 2024 - 12:00PM

Singapore

Did Singapore underestimate costs of hosting World Aquatics Championships?

Singapore will hold some of World Aquatics Championship’s events in a temporary pool in a car park, with some sources saying costs in the initial hosting bid were underestimated.

13 Jul 2024 - 12:44PMvideocam

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

China ‘will never’ release details on swimmers who tested positive for TMZ

China’s anti-doping agency’s remarks come as various United States representatives, including US swimmers Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt, criticised Wada’s handling of 2021 case.

28 Jun 2024 - 9:47AM

Chinada will not release details on 23 swimmers who tested positive for banned TMZ before Tokyo Olympics. Photo: DPA

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Phelps, Schmitt call for Wada reform over handling of Chinese swimming drugs case

The Olympic swimmers took aim at the anti-doping body before a US Congress hearing, over its handling of 23 Chinese swimmers who had tested positive for a banned substance.

4 Jul 2024 - 3:59PM

Millionaires and billionaires

5 of the richest swimmers in the world in 2024 – net worths, ranked

In and out of the pool, these 5 swimmers have made millions with top-shelf prize money, lucrative brand endorsements, investments, businesses and more – but who holds the most impressive record?

22 May 2024 - 4:00AM

Fame and celebrity

Meet Cody Simpson, Australia’s Paris Olympics 2024 hopeful … and pop star

Simpson found fame as a pop star and counts Kylie Jenner and Gigi Hadid as exes; he paused his music career to revive his childhood swimming dreams and aims to compete at Paris 2024

16 May 2024 - 5:00AMvideocam

Cody Simpson poses in a white singlet in March. Photo: @codysimpson/Instagram

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Singapore’s only Olympic champion bids farewell as swimmer Schooling retires

Dubbed ‘Singapore’s Flying Fish’, Schooling stunned the world when he beat the legendary Michael Phelps to win gold at the Rio Olympics in 2016.

2 Apr 2024 - 1:14PM

Singapore’s Joseph Schooling shows off his 100m butterfly gold medal in Rio. Photo: AP

Fame and celebrity

What has former Olympic legend Michael Phelps been up to since retirement?

Now retired from swimming, the record-breaking, multimillionaire former pro swimmer got married in 2015, has 4 sons and is a strong advocate for mental health – particularly among youth

18 Mar 2024 - 6:00PM

Trending in China

Little girl learns acupuncture from grandmother, practices on family

A five-year-old girl in China who learned to practise the ancient technique of acupuncture from her Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor grandmother has amazed mainland social media.

11 Feb 2024 - 2:00PM

SCMP’s 120th anniversary

120 years of SCMP: our photographer chasing after the perfect shot for 34 years

While covering tragedies such as the Thailand tsunami in 2004 and Sichuan earthquake in 2008, Robert Ng confronted tragedy but reminded himself he has a job to do.

8 Nov 2023 - 10:47AM

The Post’s Robert Ng says handover night in 1997 was one of the most memorable of his career. Photo: Robert Ng

US Open (tennis)

New mother Naomi Osaka eyes Australian Open return, busy 2024

The 25-year-old Japanese tennis star says she will play ‘way more tournaments than I used to’ as she looks to gradually regain form.

7 Sep 2023 - 6:30PM

Naomi Osaka speaks during a forum on mental health during the US Open tennis championships in New York. Photo: AP

Swimming

Will Haughey’s rival O’Callaghan swim at World Championships after knee scare?

‘I think it’s just a tweak,’ Mollie O’Callaghan’s coach says, with weeks to go until showdown in Japan, as Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey targets her first gold.

28 Jun 2023 - 3:05PM

Singapore

‘Not at level to perform’: Singapore Olympic champ Schooling out of SEA Games

Joseph Schooling, who has been performing his two years of mandatory military service, was mired in a drug controversy last year after he confessed to consuming cannabis overseas.

2 Mar 2023 - 8:55AM

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Michael Phelps

Quest for greatness in the pool driving Olympic swimming champion Zhang Yufei

The 27-year-old is the most decorated Olympian in Chinese history, with 10 medals across the past two Olympic Games.

How Olympians think about success and failure – and what we can learn from them

China aircraft carrier allows use of naked flames for TCM therapy popular with troops

Mental barriers needn’t hold Hongkongers back at National Games: ex-swimmer Kong

Now a mental health advocate who turned her competitive struggles into insight, she says key is ‘a balance between enjoyment and performing’.

Yu Zidi close to medal again as McIntosh, US relay women rule at swimming worlds

Summer McIntosh equals Phelps feat with her fourth gold at World Aquatics Championships, US break world record in women’s 4x100m medley.

Chinese record under threat from Canada’s McIntosh at swimming worlds

Singapore-bound teen is first swimmer to set three world records in different events since Michael Phelps did it at 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Meet Nicole Johnson, Olympic swimming legend Michael Phelps’ wife

The couple met at the 2007 ESPY Awards but had an on-and-off relationship before finally getting married in 2016 – they exchanged vows thrice

Swimming legend Phelps on China’s Pan, Singapore’s uber-rich: 7 highlights

From Michael Phelps refusing to ‘point finger’ at China’s Pan to Singapore’s uber-rich foreigners not flaunting wealth, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.

.css-sioo19{color:#c79a00;}Analysis | Doping, double standards and how TUEs muddy the waters of China row with the US

The accusations flung at China’s swimmers in Paris form part of a larger row between the world’s two superpowers.

US legend Phelps refuses to ‘point finger’ at Chinese Olympics star Pan Zhanle

Swimming star hails Olympic 100m sprint champion Noah Lyles for revealing mental health struggle, ‘he was vulnerable at his happiest moment’.

Meet Snoop Dogg’s ‘boss lady’ wife of 27 years, Shante Broadus

Snoop Dogg and his long-time wife Shante Broadus celebrated their 27th anniversary in June – here’s what you need to know about the ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot’ rapper’s entrepreneurial partner

While you were sleeping: tennis silver for China and 4 other things you missed

French swimming star took another Michael Phelps record and a fourth gold of the Games, while the host nation knocked Argentina out of the football.

Olympic champion Popovici says Pan world record an ‘amazing’ performance

Romanian David Popovici finished third in 100m freestyle event, 48 hours after winning 200m freestyle gold at Paris Games.

Ng unsure he can call himself ‘Olympian’ after being unable to finish triathlon

The Hongkonger said he had made a good start in the swim leg before his wetsuit was grabbed at and torn, making him feel he was ‘swimming with a parachute’.

The next Michael Phelps? Meet swimmer Caeleb Dressel, at the Paris Olympics

The Florida swimmer, who is competing in the Paris Olympics 2024, has already set multiple records and scored deals with Speedo, Omega, Toyota and Nobull

Explainer | Little sign of Olympic truce as conflict rages around the world

The International Olympic Committee revived the Olympic truce in 1992, but hostilities continue in Ukraine and Gaza, while tensions between the US and China go far beyond the battle to top the medal table.

Did Singapore underestimate costs of hosting World Aquatics Championships?

Singapore will hold some of World Aquatics Championship’s events in a temporary pool in a car park, with some sources saying costs in the initial hosting bid were underestimated.

China ‘will never’ release details on swimmers who tested positive for TMZ

China’s anti-doping agency’s remarks come as various United States representatives, including US swimmers Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt, criticised Wada’s handling of 2021 case.

Phelps, Schmitt call for Wada reform over handling of Chinese swimming drugs case

The Olympic swimmers took aim at the anti-doping body before a US Congress hearing, over its handling of 23 Chinese swimmers who had tested positive for a banned substance.

5 of the richest swimmers in the world in 2024 – net worths, ranked

In and out of the pool, these 5 swimmers have made millions with top-shelf prize money, lucrative brand endorsements, investments, businesses and more – but who holds the most impressive record?

Meet Cody Simpson, Australia’s Paris Olympics 2024 hopeful … and pop star

Simpson found fame as a pop star and counts Kylie Jenner and Gigi Hadid as exes; he paused his music career to revive his childhood swimming dreams and aims to compete at Paris 2024

Singapore’s only Olympic champion bids farewell as swimmer Schooling retires

Dubbed ‘Singapore’s Flying Fish’, Schooling stunned the world when he beat the legendary Michael Phelps to win gold at the Rio Olympics in 2016.

What has former Olympic legend Michael Phelps been up to since retirement?

Now retired from swimming, the record-breaking, multimillionaire former pro swimmer got married in 2015, has 4 sons and is a strong advocate for mental health – particularly among youth

Little girl learns acupuncture from grandmother, practices on family

A five-year-old girl in China who learned to practise the ancient technique of acupuncture from her Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor grandmother has amazed mainland social media.

120 years of SCMP: our photographer chasing after the perfect shot for 34 years

While covering tragedies such as the Thailand tsunami in 2004 and Sichuan earthquake in 2008, Robert Ng confronted tragedy but reminded himself he has a job to do.

New mother Naomi Osaka eyes Australian Open return, busy 2024

The 25-year-old Japanese tennis star says she will play ‘way more tournaments than I used to’ as she looks to gradually regain form.

Will Haughey’s rival O’Callaghan swim at World Championships after knee scare?

‘I think it’s just a tweak,’ Mollie O’Callaghan’s coach says, with weeks to go until showdown in Japan, as Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey targets her first gold.

‘Not at level to perform’: Singapore Olympic champ Schooling out of SEA Games

Joseph Schooling, who has been performing his two years of mandatory military service, was mired in a drug controversy last year after he confessed to consuming cannabis overseas.

Analysis | Doping, double standards and how TUEs muddy the waters of China row with the US