Michael Phelps Over Humans, Plans To Race Great White Shark

Photo Courtesy: Agence France-Presse

While Michael Phelps has taken on (and beaten) his fair share of competitors throughout his storied career, the Olympic legend apparently isn’t done making history. While we reported Phelps was set to participate in “Shark Week” back in March, in a story featured in The Washington Post it was revealed that Phelps plans to race a great white shark in this year’s week of programming on the Discovery Channel.

In a press release from the Discovery Channel the cable channel reveals the segment will be titled “Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White” and will feature Phelps at the Bimini Shark Lab located in the Bahamas. While it is unclear how exactly Phelps will be racing the great white shark, those who tune in can expect to see researchers from the Shark Lab teaching Phelps about everything shark-related, including clearing up many common myths about predatory fish.

Phelps himself posted a picture of a great white earlier this week on his Instagram account, saying he fulfilled a lifelong dream of diving with a great white in a shark cage.

I was able to do something that I had always wanted to do. Be in a cage and dive with great White sharks ?!! #bucketlist

A post shared by Michael Phelps (@m_phelps00) on Jun 10, 2017 at 9:52pm PDT

Shark Week is an annual week-long installment of programming exclusively from the Discovery Channel, and Phelps’ segment is scheduled to be aired on July 23rd at 8pm EST. You can read about additional programming during the week in the press release from the Discovery Channel here.

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Naveh Eldar

6 years ago

There was a sprinter that raced a horse back in the day. I don’t such things interesting.

Daniel Caudle

6 years ago

Almost sounds like a plot for another Jaws installment.

Melissa Girolami Clapp

6 years ago

Andrea Tolchinsky

6 years ago

Reply to Melissa Girolami Clapp

My reaction too!

Vladimir Alvarez Florez

6 years ago

Sure Phelps will defeat White Shark.

Patty Lechuga Orvañanos

6 years ago

Am I reading the onion?

Pedro Ferreira

6 years ago

…flying high…again…

Terrence Moore Robinson Jr

6 years ago

Sounds like a Lochte PR stunt….shark in 7 Phelps in 8

Sara Kandan

6 years ago

I’m down for this

Thomas A. Small

6 years ago

Your crazy Michael Phelps

Lennon Mawele

6 years ago

Reply to Thomas A. Small

Over ambitious

Andrea Tolchinsky

6 years ago

How are they going to get the shark to do a flip turn?

Anubhav Mishra

6 years ago

Reply to Andrea Tolchinsky

Hahahhaa

Dan Patterson

6 years ago

Lane ropes?

Edberto Leon Erce Perea

6 years ago

Emuelson Erce now we are talking. Hahaha.

Shivam Shetty

6 years ago

Krishna Rajan

6 years ago

Reply to Shivam Shetty

He crazy

Rachel Lund

6 years ago

Ehsan Ali Asghar Olivia Niles Minh N Le McKenna Patrow

Minh N Le

6 years ago

Reply to Rachel Lund

OMG only now I realize it’s “race” not “raise”

Lauren Royce

6 years ago

Phelps pls

Tammy Lee

6 years ago

Just leave the sharks alone.

Boaz Schwartz

6 years ago

Nikole Lam Schwartz

Josh Rines

6 years ago

Mitchell Rider

Tim Ritchie

6 years ago

Stupid

Olga Jones

6 years ago

Elizabeth Jones Hey, check this out!

Olga Jones

6 years ago

Elizabeth Jones Hey, check this out!

Soukaina Aouan

6 years ago

Hamza

Taneal Baptiste

6 years ago

Jessica Canter ?

Tasha McGill

6 years ago

David Moreno

6 years ago

Dumb

Qamar Dogar

6 years ago

U are the champ u are going to wins it

Alexis Duran

6 years ago

Kt Dimapilis this is lit

Scott Baker

6 years ago

Does the shark know it’s a race? Cause Phelps isn’t winning that one.

Lennon Mawele

6 years ago

Reply to Scott Baker

That’s a very good question

Se-Bom Lee

6 years ago

Zac Attard

6 years ago

Reply to Se-Bom Lee

Max

Steve Rakow

6 years ago

Dennis Echevarria

6 years ago

Reply to Steve Rakow

I mean at this point what’s left to challenge him

Steve Rakow

6 years ago

Reply to Steve Rakow

Dennis how many medals does the shark have?
Punk bitch

Megan Zerangue Piper

6 years ago

Mandie Nicholas Kathleen

Mandie Grundmeyer

6 years ago

Glen Osborne

6 years ago

I heard salmon swim about 5 -6 mph, maybe he should warm up with a salmon

Troy Williams

6 years ago

Sharknado 6?

Haley Rosenthal

6 years ago

Anna James

6 years ago

Reply to Haley Rosenthal

Typical

Lennon Mawele

6 years ago

How do you race an animal?
You cannot compare a human being and an animal

Michael Maloney

6 years ago

Have another beer and smoke a bong…….your CAREER is over right go find something to do besides making yourself look like a moron…..

Niharika Tuladhar

6 years ago

Sauharda Rajbhandari

Vim Arachchige

6 years ago

Karl Sexon

6 years ago

Reply to Vim Arachchige

i wanna warch

Lucie Berry

6 years ago

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Steve

6 years ago

Notice all the negative coments come from philippines punks they don’t even know how to swim but make negative comments give the man a break. Go put your negativity away.