﻿{"id":515034,"date":"2022-10-24T12:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T19:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=515034"},"modified":"2022-10-24T12:44:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T19:44:36","slug":"michael-phelps-announces-father-fred-phelps-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/michael-phelps-announces-father-fred-phelps-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Phelps Announces Father Fred Phelps Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Michael Phelps Announces Father Fred Phelps Has Died<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Olympic champion <strong>Michael Phelps<\/strong> announced the death of his father <strong>Fred Phelps<\/strong> on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"_aacl _aaco _aacu _aacx _aad7 _aade\">You\u2019ll always be my dad\u2026 And I\u2019ll always be your son\u2026 Love you dad and I will miss you\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f rip dad,&#8221; Michael Phelps posted on Instagram. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; 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border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CkGeabGpxt7\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Michael Phelps (@m_phelps00)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Michael Phelps had a rocky relationship with his father. In 1994, his parents divorced and Fred was not a big part of Michael&#8217;s life for several years.<\/p>\n<p>Fred was a Maryland State Trooper for 28 years. He was a strong football player in high school and college, but was mostly out of Michael&#8217;s life for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship continued to be complicated as Michael Phelps rose to international stardom at multiple Olympic Games, including his record-setting performance in Beijing in 2008 when he won eight gold medals to break the record for most in a single Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>When Phelps was in a rehab clinic in 2014, Phelps confronted his relationship with his father. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/michael-phelps-discusses-childhood-fatherhood-and-more-on-matt-lauers-on-assignment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He told <\/a><strong>Matt Lauer <\/strong>he realized he had feelings of abandonment and avoidance related to their relationship. <b>Phelps <\/b>said that the breakthrough happened when his father came to visit him in Arizona. There, he says, they had the best conversation in over twenty years and began to heal their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>He has new perspective on his own father now that he himself is a father with three children at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve realized that was the best my father could have done,\u201d he told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/feature\/story\/_\/id\/16425548\/michael-phelps-prepares-life-2016-rio-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> <em>ESPN in 2016<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIt sucks. But I get it. I understand now. I\u2019ve learned a lot on the road that I\u2019ve walked that will make me a better father and help me not make some of the same mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those are lessons Phelps continues to learn and reflect on as a father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Phelps Announces Father Fred Phelps Has Died Olympic champion Michael Phelps announced the death of his father Fred Phelps on social media. &#8220;You\u2019ll always be my dad\u2026 And I\u2019ll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":477356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[122077,62061],"tags":[36021,6302],"class_list":["post-515034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas","category-obituaries","tag-fred-phelps","tag-michael-phelps"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Michael Phelps Announces Father Fred Phelps Has Died<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Michael Phelps Announces Father Fred Phelps Has Died. 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