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BEIJING — Carl Lewis, the American track and field star of the 1980s and 1990s, said, “The reality is, congratulations.”
Michael Phelps won his sixth gold medal of the Beijing Games on Friday, tying his Athens mark and closing in on Mark Spitz’s record. Phelps blew away the 200m IM field and set a world record.

Soviet-era gymnast Larisa Latynina, in a note, wrote to say, “You have shattered all sort of records with truly inspiring Olympic character.”

And Mark Spitz, the American swimmer whose 1972 mark of seven gold medals in one Olympics Michael Phelps broke with his eighth on Sunday, said, “When I look at Michael and I think of the lore of what he has done over the last four years — it’s more remarkable than myself.”

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