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Michael Phelps

The latest news on Michael Phelps, American former professional swimmer, including sports news and updates.

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30 Jun 1985

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China’s most advanced aircraft carrier, Fujian, has made an exception for the use of naked flames on board to accommodate a traditional Chinese medicine treatment. Photo: SCMP composite/Sohu/Chinese Ministry of Defense

Trending in China

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

Military chiefs describe flames used in cupping treatment as ‘necessary fire’; say strict fire prevention code enforced on ship.

26 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM

2025 National Games

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

5 Nov 2025 - 8:00AM

Swimming

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

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

Summer McIntosh will start training with Michael Phelps’ mentor after the world championships as she builds towards the 2028 Olympics. Photo: Getty Images

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

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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Swimmers from China, the USA and France pose with their medals after the men’s 4x100m medley relay at Paris La Defense Arena. Photo: Reuters

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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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

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

Silver medalists Wang Xinyu and Zhang Zhizhen show off their silver medals for mixed doubles tennis at the Olympic Games in Paris on Friday. Photo: Xinhua

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

David Popovici with the bronze medal he won at the men’s 100m freestyle. Photo: Photo: Reuters

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

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

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

Protestors walk past the headquarters of International Olympic Committee urging against the return to competition of Russian athletes to compete under a neutral flag. Photo: AFP

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

More than 2,500 athletes are expected to compete at the 2025 World Aquatics Championship in Singapore. Photo: Handout

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

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

Michael Phelps, Sarah Sjöström and Caeleb Dressel are among the richest swimmers in the world. Photos: @caelebdressel, @m_phelps00, @sarahsjostrom/Instagram

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

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

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

After his record-breaking years at the Olympics, swimmer Michael Phelps has moved on to family life and entrepreneurship. Photo: @m_phelps00/Instagram

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

A five-year-old girl in China has stunned mainland social media by learning to practice Traditional Chinese Medicine acupuncture, and more, from her grandmother. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin

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

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

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

Mollie O’Callaghan, before her injury, wins the 200m freestyle at the Australian World Championship Trials this month. Photo: AFP

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

Singapore’s first-ever Olympic champion Joseph Schooling, who beat Michael Phelps at the 100m butterfly in 2016, said Wednesday he will skip the upcoming Southeast Asian Games in Phnom Penh. Photo: EPA-EFE/File

Fame and celebrity

What is pickleball and why are so many celebrities playing it?

The Kardashians and Bill and Melinda Gates are fans, with Harry Potter’s Emma Watson joining Stephen Colbert’s Pickled tournament on CBS – so why is the wacky racket sport so popular?

17 Nov 2022 - 7:00PM

Singapore

Singapore’s Schooling saga raises questions over long arm of anti-drug laws

Incident puts in sharp focus Singapore’s strict approach to drug use versus more liberal attitudes among some younger citizens, regional neighbours.

18 Sep 2022 - 11:00AMvideocam

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Michael Phelps

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

Military chiefs describe flames used in cupping treatment as ‘necessary fire’; say strict fire prevention code enforced on ship.

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

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

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.

What is pickleball and why are so many celebrities playing it?

The Kardashians and Bill and Melinda Gates are fans, with Harry Potter’s Emma Watson joining Stephen Colbert’s Pickled tournament on CBS – so why is the wacky racket sport so popular?

Singapore’s Schooling saga raises questions over long arm of anti-drug laws

Incident puts in sharp focus Singapore’s strict approach to drug use versus more liberal attitudes among some younger citizens, regional neighbours.

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