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ADHD due to learn how to swim

Phelps said that with the fate of the swim, he suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in the mother's arrangements, from a young age his swimming career.

Yang Lan: I heard that you learn to swim in one of the original because you suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, so your mother would like to swim through you to release excess energy.

Phelps: he was right. When I was in the stadium or a swimming pool, I will feel very relaxed and free. Release through its own efforts to be happy, I am finally out of ADHD, I am all right now. I think if a child learn how to swim, I may not become stronger.

Training, until five years after retirement

Phelps is very clear, it is necessary to achieve victory in the light of an enormous self-confidence is not enough, his opponents have to pay more than double. He is fond of coach Bowman's famous statement: "If you break