Swimmer Learns He'll Be In Olympics On Twitter

In a story that certainly speaks to the #OnlyOnTwitter phenomenon, swimmer Ricky Berens found out he was headed for the Olympics earlier today from a tweet.

Michael Phelps was slated to compete in eight Olympics events this summer in London, but decided to scale back and only compete in seven events instead. Yes, only. He won eight gold medals in Bejing in 2008 and made the wise decision to NOT have the pressure to repeat that performance.

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