Olympics: Phelps grabs 7th swimming gold

BEIJING, China - Michael Phelps of the United States acknowledges the crowd after he was awarded his seventh gold medal at the Beijing Olympics with victory in the men's 100-meter butterfly at the Water Cube in Beijing on Aug. 16. Phelps tied countryman Mark Spitz's record at the 1972 Munich Games for the most gold medals won in a single Olympics, and has one more race to go -- the men's 4x100-meter medley relay final on Aug. 17.

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