Phelps' daily diet, from the London Times:

• Breakfast: Three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. Two cups of coffee. One five-egg omelette. One bowl of grits. Three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar. Three chocolate-chip pancakes.
• Lunch: One pound of pasta. Two large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayonnaise on white bread, plus 1,000 calories of energy drinks.
• Dinner: One pound of pasta, an entire pizza and even more energy drinks.
Estimated calories: 12,000. Gaseous index: High. All that's missing are the little chocolate donuts of champions.

Young swimmers throughout the nation are now jumping up from their computer screens and heading to Denny's. It won't be long before all members of the U.S. Junior National team look like this. America, the most buoyant team in the 2016 Olympics.