Got to spend a few minutes with Michael Phelps today after he did some promotional stuff for Visa. He was absolutely exhausted and could barely keep his eyes open, having done too many interviews on too little sleep.

“I am so tired right now,” he said, and you could see it in his face.

I asked him a lot of Baltimore questions for an article that will run later in the week, mostly about what it’s going to be like to come back to Charm City. He’s really looking forward to the Ravens season and says he’s not counting out Joe Flacco as the starter at quarterback just yet. (We’ll give you the rest of his Ravens-related thoughts over the next few days.)

During his big news conference at Prince Jun Palace in Chaoyang Park, he talked about how much he wants to meet Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, something I suspect you’ll see published in just about every newspaper in the country tomorrow, but later behind closed doors I asked him if there is anything he’d like to do now that he has plenty of time, money, and fame to achieve it.

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