Her previous work appears in The New York Post and Popstar! Magazine. Michael Phelps is a crier. "I'm a Cancer. That's what we do," he tells PEOPLE. As a kid, though, "I wanted to be a superhero ...

There, in early 2001, Michael Phelps set the first world record of his career, accomplishing the feat in the 200-meter butterfly as a 15-year-old prodigy. The night was September 19, 2000 ...