Michael 'Mighty' Phelps on his merry way!!!

Michael Phelps, on course for Mark Spitz's record of 7 Olympic golds, has won his fifth gold with the US 4x200m freestyle relay team in a world record time of 6min 58.56sec. The 23-year-old American is on course to do what Ian 'Thorpedo' Thorpe was expected to achieve in Athens in 2004. Will Beijing crown a new swimming legend?

Phelps has already become the most successful Olympian now with a total tally of 10 individual golds. (Perspective: India has a sum total of 9 Olympic Golds so far)

Jason Lezak's 'Its the Olympics - Go for it' moment

American swimmer Jason Lezak said, "When I saw the last 50 metres and I saw he (Frenchman Alain Bernard) was far ahead, I thought: 'no way'. Then I thought: 'That's ridiculous, this is an Olympic Games. You have to go for it.' This was all in the space of five seconds - I went from 'can't do it' to 'can do it' to 'done it.'"

32-year-old US swimmer Jason Lezak churned out an incredible swim of 46.06 seconds to help US win the men's swimming relay and prop up Michael Phelps' bid for a world record 8 Olympic golds. The US team of Phelps, Garrett Weber-Gale, Cullen Jones and Lezak shaved off almost four seconds from the previous world record winning gold in 3min 08.24.