Michael Phelps

In April 11, 2005 Phelps was a guest judge in the Miss USA beauty pageant. Major highways include:. Phelps cannot swim for the team, however, because his endorsement deal with Speedo has caused him to forfeit his amateur status. Montana has several ski areas including:. Phelps is also serving as a volunteer assistant coach and is taking classes, intending to major in sports marketing or sports management. The Minor League baseball teams are:. Phelps is following his longtime coach, Bob Bowman, who left Phelps' previous swim team to become the head swimming coach of the University of Michigan varsity swim team. Some of the historical cities and towns of Montana are:.

As of 2005, Phelps is attending University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Some of the major cities and towns in Montana are:. He was also fined $250, required to attend a Mothers Against Drunk Driving meeting, and to give speeches to students at three high schools by June 1, 2005. Montana's largest city is Billings. On December 29, 2004, Phelps was sentenced to 18 months of probation. Its industrial outputs are mining, lumber and wood products, food processing, and tourism. Phelps pled guilty to driving while impaired, avoiding charges of driving under the influence, underage drinking and failure to stop at a stop sign. Its agricultural outputs are cattle, wheat, barley, sugar beets, hay, and hogs.

His specific blood alcohol content was not released because of police policy, although in the state of Maryland, the legal limit is .08. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (http://www.bea.gov/) estimates that Montana's total state product in 2003 was $26 billion. Per capital personal income in 2003 was $25,406, 47^th in the nation. Phelps, who was 19 at the time (21 is the legal drinking age in the U.S.), was arrested and cited for driving under the influence of alcohol. Several Indian reservations are located in Montana: Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Crow Indian Reservation, Rocky Boys Indian Reservation, Blackfeet Indian Reservation, and the Flathead Indian Reservation. On November 4, 2004, Phelps was arrested in Salisbury, Maryland for driving under the influence after being pulled over for running a stop sign in his 2005 Land Rover with two friends. senators are Max Baucus (Democrat) and Conrad Burns (Republican). Phelps graduated Towson High School in the Spring of 2004. Its two U.S.

See also: Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The capital of Montana is Helena and its current Governor is Brian Schweitzer (Democrat) who was sworn in on January 3, 2005. NBC Olympic coverage of the 2004 games always showed him listening to his iPod with Bose headphones before competing. See: List of Montana Governors. This gave Phelps an automatic entry into the medley relay, but as he was exhausted from the many races he had competed in over the preceding week, he gave up the butterfly leg to Crocker. The American medley team went on to win the event in world record time, and since he had raced in a preliminary heat of the medley relay, Phelps was also awarded a gold medal along with the team members that competed in the final. It is operated by the National Park Service, but is also a 1900-acre (7.7 kmē) working ranch. Traditionally, the olympian who places highest in a individual event will be automatically given the corresponding leg of the 4x100m medley relay. The Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site in Deer Lodge Valley is maintained as a link to the ranching style of the late 19th century.

On August 20, in the 100m butterfly final, Phelps defeated American teammate Ian Crocker (who holds the world record in the event) by just 0.04 seconds. Cattle ranching has long been central to Montana's history and economy. On August 14, 2004, he won his first Olympic gold, in the 400m individual medley, setting another new world record (4:08.26). Montana was also the location of the final battles of the Nez Perce Wars. The episode only made it yet more clear that Phelps's participation in at least some of the relay events would depend solely on his performance in the individual events. Colonel George Armstrong Custer was fought in Montana near the present day town of Hardin. They claimed that Phelps is not a top swimmer in the event and his presence could compromise the US team's performance in the name of what was called a "media circus" for Phelps to win eight gold medals. Army Lt.

4x100m freestyle team, publicly criticized the possibility of allowing Phelps to swim in the event. For instance, the last stand of U.S. and Jason Lezak, both of whom were aiming to be on the U.S. Montana was the scene of the Native Americans' last effort to keep their land. Only a few days before the beginning of the swimming competition in Athens 2004, however, Gary Hall Jr. Montana became a United States territory (Montana Territory) on May 26, 1864 and the 41^st state on November 8, 1889. Had he won seven golds, he would have been eligible for a US $1 million bonus from his sponsor, Speedo. The smaller Pend d'Oreille and Kalispel tribes were found around Flathead Lake and the western mountains, respectively.

However, he did win eight medals in one Olympics, a feat only achieved by Aleksandr Dityatin, a gymnast, in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Groups included the Crows in the south-central area, the Cheyenne in the southeast, the Blackfeet, Assiniboine and Gros Ventres in the central and north-central region and the Kootenai and Salish in the western sector. As his 4x100m freestyle relay team only won a bronze medal, and he personally placed for bronze in the 200m freestyle, he fell just short of that record. Native Americans were the first inhabitants of modern-day Montana. Phelps had the chance to break that record in 2004 by competing in eight swimming events: the 200m freestyle, the 100m butterfly, the 200m butterfly, the 100m backstroke, the 200m backstroke, the 200m individual medley, the 400m individual medley, the 4x100m freestyle relay and the 4x100m medley relay. Sagebrush and various species of grass are common plants in the region, and forests cover 1/4 of the state. Phelps' dominance brought comparisons to Puerto Rican-American swimmer, Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals in the 1972 Summer Olympics, a world record. Additionally, flowers native to Montana include asters, bitterroots, daisies, lupines, poppies, primroses, columbine, lilies and dryads.

He won the 2003 Sullivan Award. Vegetation of the area includes pine, larch, fir, spruce, aspen, birch, cedar, ash, and alder trees. trials for the 2004 Summer Olympics. The Yellowstone, a tributary of the Missouri, rises in the Yellowstone Park in Wyoming, flows northeast across the state through canyons and gorges, and enters the Missouri a few miles east of the North Dakota boundary. Then on July 7, 2004, Phelps broke his own world record again in the 400m individual medley (4:08.41) during the U.S. The Missouri river, formed by the Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin rivers crosses the northeastern part of the state and enters North Dakota. In 2003, Phelps broke his own world record in the 400m individual medley (4:09.09) and in June, he broke the world record in the 200m individual medley (1:56.04). The Clark Fork of the Missouri (not to be confused with the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River) rises in the Rocky Mountains near Butte, and after flowing west turns north and forms portion of the Idaho boundary.

At the 2002 Summer Nationals in Fort Lauderdale, Phelps also broke the world record for the 400m individual medley and set American marks in the 100m butterfly and the 200m individual medley. The principal river systems in Montana are the Clark Fork of the Columbia, the Missouri, and the Yellowstone. Five months after Sydney, Phelps broke the world record in the 200m butterfly and then broke his own record again at the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan (1:54.58). The highest point in the state, Granite Peak, is 12,799 feet high. While he did not win a medal at the 2000 Olympics, Phelps proceeded to make a name for himself in swimming shortly thereafter. The mountains are intersected by numerous valleys and canyons, through which flow several beautiful rivers. Michael Phelps appeared at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as the youngest American male swimmer at an Olympic Games in 68 years at the age of 15. Besides the prominent mountain ranges there are many spurs, detached ridges, and smooth, sloping buttes.

Michael Phelps (born June 30, 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American swimmer and world-record holder (as of 2004). In the south near the Yellowstone River the mountains reach an altitude of 10,000 feet and the peaks are perpetually covered with snow. East of the Rocky Mountains is a rolling tableland, traversed by several large rivers. Between these ranges is a great basin, forming one-fifth of the entire area. The Bitterroot Mountains from the western boundary line, and east of this the main chain of the Rocky Mountains cross the state.

In the west it is extremely mountainous. The surface of the state is highly diverse. 275,000 acres (1100 kmē) are administered as state parks and forests. The Federal government administers 36,000,000 acres (146,000 kmē).

Other sites include the Little Bighorn National Monument, Bighorn Canyon National Recreational Area, Big Hole National Battlefield, and the National Bison Range. There are also a number of National Forests and National Wildlife Refuges. Montana contains Glacier National Park and portions of Yellowstone National Park. Montana is also one of many areas to claim the disputed title of "world's shortest river" (the Roe River). Major rivers in the state include the Missouri, Clark Fork of the Columbia, Milk, Flathead and Yellowstone.

With a land area of 376,978 kmē (145,552 square miles), Montana is the fourth largest in the United States (after Alaska, Texas, and California). In the south is the Wyoming border, and on the west and southwest is the Idaho border, marked by the Bitterroot River. To the east is the border with North Dakota; to the southeast is a short border with South Dakota. The state borders the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Montana and Canada share a 877km (545-mile) northern border. Main articles: List of Montana counties, List of Montana rivers. The USS Montana was named in honor of the state. postal abbreviation is MT.

Its U.S. The largest city is Billings. The state capital is Helena. Senator (Max Baucus).

The state is generally regarded as Republican; many are surprised to hear that the state has a Democratic governor (Brian Schweitzer), Democratic-controlled legislature (the Montana State Legislature), and one Democratic U.S. Montana's people are largely homogenous, with 89.5 percent of the population white (but with a sizable American Indian representation at 6.2 percent). The state became the first to elect a female member of Congress, Jeannette Rankin. Originally inhabited by Native Americans, modern-day Montana became Montana Territory in 1864 and later became the 41st state in 1889.

The western one-third of the state is primarily mountainous terrain, while the eastern two-third is part of the northern Great Plains. The state ranks fourth in size but has a low population and population density, with much of the state being rural. The economy is primarily ranching-based, with some agricultural crops (wheat, barley, sugar beets) and a significant lumber and mineral industry. The name probably comes from the Spanish word montaņa ("mountain"). Montana is a state in the western United States.

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State fish: Blackspotted Cutthroat Trout. State bird: Western Meadowlark. State animal: Grizzly Bear. State tree: Ponderosa Pine.

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