With the Rio Olympics kicking off this week, Michael Phelps remains ... It's wild, then, to think that in Sydney, Australia in 2000, a 15-year-old Phelps was just kicking off his Olympic career.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone felt like Michael Phelps of 2008 Olympics, who won the 200m butterfly swimming blindly (Image: All via Getty) Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone once revealed that when it started ...

an event in which he tied for gold during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. He was just 19 then. The 35-year-old Ervin, who is four years older than Michael Phelps, also became the first swimmer to ...

Michael Phelps has a total of 28 Olympic medals ... While participating in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, at the age of just 15, he placed fifth in the 200m butterfly event.

Peter Phelps was spotted on the tools outside his Sydney home on Monday, looking worlds away from his heartthrob status of yesteryear. The 64-year-old actor became a household name in the '80s ...

For years, Michael Phelps' identity was as a dominant swimmer. The American was a force to be reckoned with in the pool, and there were not many that could keep up with the speedster. The result ...