By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net

OLYMPIC medalist and American swimmer Michael Phelps hates getting out of a warm bed every morning to jump into a cold pool.

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Speaking briefly during the opening day here at Oracle World, Phelps who won a world-record eight gold medals revealed that he wakes up early in the morning — around 7 a.m.– swims, then eats lots of breakfast before he sleeps again at around 10 a.m.

This was his daily regimen that made him an outstanding athlete, he said as he quickly warmed up to a group of about 40,000 people attending Oracle Open World here in San Francisco.

Phelps wowed the world when he broke the world record, winning eight gold medals in various men’s swimming competition during the Beijing Summer Olympics. He surpassed an earlier record set by fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz who won 7 Olympic golds.