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Phelps Draws Sellout Crowd In Return To Competitive Swimming

Michael Phelps yesterday made his "triumphant return to competitive swimming" before a sellout crowd at the Arena Grand Prix in Mesa, Ariz. The "buzzing crowd at the Skyline Aquatic Center attested to Phelps’ ongoing pre-eminence in the sport." Tickets "sold out rapidly as soon as news broke that Phelps would swim." USA Swimming "handed out 100 media credentials for the event, about five times as many" as in '13. Phelps wore sunglasses, a dark baseball cap and a gray Under Armour T-shirt that said Baltimore across the chest (Baltimore SUN, 4/25).

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