Feat worth a thousand words

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What they're writing about Michael Phelps

Michael Phelps was "good to the last drop," as The (Baltimore) Sun said in a headline about the swimmer winning a record eighth gold medal in the Beijing Olympics.

Among other accolades:

*Ann Killion, San Jose Mercury-News: "Phelpsian adj. 1. To set an impossible goal and achieve it. And make it look easy."

*Mike Lupica, New York Daily News: "For this one week ... when sports lifted us all and Phelps seemed to carry us along in his wake, the national pastime was him."

*Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times: "Magical in China, mystical in U.S. swimming circles, the number eight makes Phelps the greatest single-Olympics athlete in history ..."

*Linda Robertson,...