An old, local news interview of Michael Phelps has surfaced after the sports producer shared the excerpt on Reddit. The interview happened in June 2001, after Phelps attended, and failed to medal at, the 2000 Summer Olympics. Phelps talked about his hopes of earning a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics.

As we already know, he bested that goal, winning eight medals—six of them gold—at the 2004 games.

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Anthony Alaniz is a writer and Michigan native. After three years at Car and Driver focusing on web production and video engagement management, he branched out to focus on establishing a writing career. Currently he writes for a number of outlets covering the automotive industry, business, technology and breaking news.

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