Wow! Phelps wins 7th gold by slimmest marginPosted on Sat, Aug. 16, 2008
By Sports NetworkThe Sports NetworkAnd just like that Michael Phelps was there.
It doesn’t get any closer.
Trailing until a final lunge to the wall, Phelps secured his seventh gold medal of the Beijing Olympics and a spot in history when he beat Serbia’s Milorad Cavic by just .01 seconds to win the 100-meter butterfly on Saturday.
Phelps tied Mark Spitz’s record from the 1972 Munich Games of most gold medals at one Olympics, touching the wall in 50.58 seconds for a new Olympic record — the first time he’s won here without also setting a world mark.
The American-born Cavic finished at 50.59, one-hundredth of a second behind Phelps.
You can’t win by any less.











