Olympics: Phelps grabs 7th swimming gold

BEIJING, China - Michael Phelps of the United States in action in the men's 100-meter butterfly final at the Water Cube in Beijing on Aug. 16. Phelps won the race and captured his seventh gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, tying countryman Mark Spitz's record at the 1972 Munich Games for the most gold medals won in a single Olympics.

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