Baltimore Ravens get swimming classes from Olympic champion Michael Phelps

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OWINGS MILLS — The Baltimore Ravens received their likelihood to swim with Michael Phelps.

A few weeks after gamers shot video asking the 23-time Olympic champion — and Baltimore native — for swimming classes, Phelps confirmed up at observe Tuesday. Then the staff posted video of gamers swimming and diving — or at the least leaping off diving boards — at close by Loyola University.

In one video posted by a reporter for the staff’s web site, Phelps let everybody else have a big head begin earlier than diving in and racing them. At least a few of them did beat him to the tip.

Phelps additionally toured the smaller swimming pools on the Ravens’ facility, and he spoke to the staff on the observe area together with former Ravens star Ray Lewis.

“I’m not going to say I’m a big swimming fan, but I know Michael Phelps,” defensive coordinator Zach Orr stated. “I think it was neat having him and Ray come talk to us, because the message was the same. That’s one thing you notice when you listen to the greats. When you study the greats, you wonder, ‘How do they do such great things in the highest tense moments?’ And it all leads back to the work that nobody sees, and that’s what Michael Phelps talked about. Ray talked about preparation. Michael Phelps talked about preparation as well.”