By the time the Olympics came to Athens in 2004, Ian Thorpe and Pieter van den Hoogenband were already legends in the global swimming community. Their 200 freestyle rivalry had been established four years previously in Sydney, when the Dutchman defeated Thorpe in his own backyard in world-record fashion. In those same 2000 Games, Michael Phelps was a relatively unknown 15-year-old butterflyer, but he quickly rose to fame as one of the fastest swimmers in the world in multiple disciplines.
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