“Frosty has been on Wendy’s menu for 55 years and is one of the most iconic frozen treats in American culture. We’re expanding on our beloved Frosty so when a sweet tooth strikes, the choice is easy for consumers: It’s Gotta Be Wendy’s,” said Lindsay Radkoski, U.S. Chief Marketing Ocer for the company, in a statement.
Starting Friday, fans can order new Frosty Swirls in flavors including strawberry, caramel and brownie batter, on Wendy’s app. The flavors will be available nationwide at restaurants on April 15.
Then on May 12, Wendy’s will launch Frosty Fusions made with sauces and various sweet treats like Pop-Tarts and Oreo cookies.
“We know consumers are always on the lookout for new flavors and ways to customize their order with sauces and mix-ins,” Radkoski said.
Here’s the breakdown of the new flavors:
Frosty Swirls offer a choice of three sauces swirled into a Vanilla or Chocolate Frosty.
Strawberry Frosty Swirl: Features strawberry sauce swirled on a Frosty.
Caramel Frosty Swirl: Tastes like a cold, creamy candy bar.
Brownie Batter Frosty Swirl: A decadent, chocolatey Frosty treat of any fan’s dreams.
Frosty Fusions feature a choice of sauce and mix-ins for extra flavor to a Vanilla or Chocolate Frosty.
Pop-Tarts Strawberry Frosty Fusion: Combines Wendy’s Frosty with strawberry sauce and chunks of strawberry-flavored Pop-Tarts Crunchy Poppers pieces.
OREO Brownie Frosty Fusion: Features a classic Frosty swirled with Brownie Batter sauce mixed with Oreo cookie pieces.
Caramel Crunch Frosty Fusion: Blends the classic Frosty with crunchy toffee pieces and a sweet caramel sauce.
Hideki Matsuyama will have some ground to make up after the opening round of the Masters, and he can thank one of the flagsticks at Augusta National Golf Club for that.
Matsuyama was playing fairly well in the first round of the Masters on Thursday when he caught a horrendous break. After laying up to a nice spot on the par-5 13th hole, Matsuyama hit what looked like a perfect approach shot. It just happened to a bit too perfect.
Matsuyama’s shot bounced off the flag stick and rolled into the water.
Hideki Matsuyama, the 2021 Masters champion, got one of those bounces that would leave any golfer shaking their head during Thursday’s first round at Augusta National.
Playing the par-5 13th, Matsuyama was 1 under for the day after having missed a short putt on No. 12 that led to a bogey at the 2025 Masters. He had laid up short of the tributary to Rae’s Creek.
The Japanese star played what looked like a great shot onto the green from 67 yards, but after one bounce, the ball slammed into the flagstick and reversed all the way into the water hazard.
Matsuyama took a penalty and a drop, then knocked his fifth shot onto the green past the hole, spinning back but still some 15 feet from the hole. He two-putted for a double bogey after having been within reach of a birdie. The 7 dropped him to 1 over for the round.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s story begins in his native El Salvador, but it’s become increasingly unclear where it will end.
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return to the U.S. from a notorious prison, rejecting the White House’s claim that it couldn’t retrieve the Salvadoran national after mistakenly deporting him.
Trump administration officials on Monday pushed back against the idea of bringing him back, arguing it was up to El Salvador. The president of El Salvador said he lacked the power to return him, saying it would be “preposterous” to “smuggle a terrorist into the United States.”
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, esposa de Kilmar Abrego García, quien fue deportado por error a El Salvador, habla durante una conferencia de prensa en Hyattsville, Maryland, el viernes 4 de abril de 2025. (AP Foto/Jose Luis Magana)
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, esposa de Kilmar Abrego García, quien fue deportado por error a El Salvador, habla durante una conferencia de prensa en Hyattsville, Maryland, el viernes 4 de abril de 2025. (AP Foto/Jose Luis Magana)
Abrego Garcia, 29, lived in the U.S. for roughly 14 years, during which he worked construction, got married and was raising three children with disabilities, according to court records.
Trump administration officials said he was deported last month based on a 2019 accusation from local police in Maryland that he was an MS-13 gang member. Abrego Garcia denied the allegation and was never charged with a crime, his attorneys said.
Later in 2019, a U.S. immigration judge shielded Abrego Garcia from deportation to El Salvador because he likely faced persecution there by local gangs that had terrorized his family. The Trump administration deported him there anyway, later describing the mistake as “an administrative error” but insisting he was in MS-13.
As his case continues in the U.S. courts, here is Abrego Garcia’s story so far:
Gang threats in El Salvador
Abrego Garcia grew up in El Salvador’s capital city, San Salvador, according to court documents filed in U.S. immigration court in 2019. His father was a former police officer. His mother, Cecilia, sold pupusas, the nation’s signature dish of flat tortilla pouches that hold steaming blends of cheese, beans or savory pork.
The entire family, including his parents, two sisters and older brother, ran the business from home, court records state. Abrego Garcia’s job was to buy ingredients from the grocery store and make deliveries with his brother.
Esta fotografía muestra a Kilmar Ábrego Garcia, que por error fue deportado por el gobierno estadounidense a una prisión salvadoreña. Foto sin fecha suministrada por Murray Osorio PLLC. (Murray Osorio PLLC vía AP)
Esta fotografía muestra a Kilmar Ábrego Garcia, que por error fue deportado por el gobierno estadounidense a una prisión salvadoreña. Foto sin fecha suministrada por Murray Osorio PLLC. (Murray Osorio PLLC vía AP)
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, speaks during a news conference at CASA’s Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, speaks during a news conference at CASA’s Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
“Everyone in the town knew to get their pupusas from ‘Pupuseria Cecilia,’” his lawyers wrote.
A local gang, Barrio 18, began extorting the family for “rent money” and threatened to kill his older brother Cesar — or force him into their gang — if they weren’t paid, court documents state. The family complied but eventually sent Cesar to the U.S.
Barrio 18 similarly targeted Abrego Garcia, according to his immigration case. When he was 12, the gang threatened to take him away until his father paid them “all of the money that they wanted.” They still watched him as he walked to and from school.
The family moved 10 minutes away, but the gang threatened to rape and kill Abrego Garcia’s sisters, court records state. The family shut down the business, moved again and eventually sent Abrego Garcia to the U.S.
The family never went to authorities because of rampant police corruption, according to court filings. The gang continued to harass the family after they moved to Guatemala, which borders El Salvador.
Life in the U.S.
Abrego Garcia fled to the U.S. illegally around 2011, the year he turned 16, according to documents filed in his immigration case. He joined Cesar, now a U.S. citizen, in Maryland and found work in construction.
About five years later, Abrego Garcia met Jennifer Vasquez Sura, a U.S. citizen, the records say. In 2018, after she learned she was pregnant, he moved in with her and her two children. They lived in Prince George’s County, just outside Washington.
In 2019, Abrego Garcia went to a Home Depot looking for work when he was arrested by county police, according to court filings. Detectives asked if he was a gang member. After explaining he wasn’t, he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Abrego Garcia later told an immigration judge that he would seek asylum and asked to be released. Vasquez Sura was five months into a high-risk pregnancy.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, however, alleged that he was a certified gang member based on information that came from a confidential informant used by county police, records state.
According to Abrego Garcia’s attorneys in his current case, the criminal informant had alleged that Abrego Garcia belonged to an MS-13 chapter in New York, where he has never lived.
The information was enough for an immigration judge in 2019 to keep Abrego Garcia in jail as his immigration case continued, court records state. The judge said the informant was proven and reliable and had verified his gang membership and rank.
Abrego Garcia later married Vasquez Sura in a Maryland detention center, according to court filings. She gave birth while he was still in jail.
In October 2019, an immigration judge denied Abrego Garcia’s asylum request but granted him protection from being deported back to El Salvador because of a “well-founded fear” of gang persecution, according to his case. He was released, and ICE did not appeal.
Abrego Garcia checked in with ICE yearly while the Department of Homeland Security issued him a work permit, his attorneys said in court filings. He joined a union and was employed full time as a sheet metal apprentice.
He and Vasquez Sura were raising three kids, including their 5-year-old son, who has autism, is deaf in one ear and unable to verbally communicate, according to the complaint filed against the Trump administration. They’re also raising a 9-year-old with autism and a 10-year-old with epilepsy.
In this undated photo provided by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in April 2025, a man identified by Jennifer Vasquez Sura as her husband, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is forced to sit with other prisoners by guards in the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland via AP)
In this undated photo provided by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in April 2025, a man identified by Jennifer Vasquez Sura as her husband, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is forced to sit with other prisoners by guards in the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland via AP)
Mistaken deportation
In February, the Trump administration designated MS-13 as a foreign terrorist organization and sought to remove identified members “as expeditiously as possible,” U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in Monday’s brief to the Supreme Court.
Abrego Garcia was pulled over March 12 outside an Ikea in Baltimore with his son, according to court records. An agent called Vasquez Sura and said she had 10 minutes to retrieve their son or ICE would request child protective services.
Abrego Garcia called his wife from jail and said authorities pressed him about MS-13, according to court documents. They asked about a photo they had of him playing basketball on a public court, and his family’s visits to a restaurant serving Mexican and Salvadoran food.
“He would repeat the truth again and again — that he was not in a gang,” Vasquez Sura stated in court documents.
This year’s Masters Champions Dinner featured a pair of prized California wines
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Ninety-three is a terrible number to post at the Masters.
But it’s a nice score to receive from the wine pundit Robert Parker.
Whether Scottie Scheffler had that figure on his mind in advance of this year’s tournament is hard to say, but a Parker-sanctioned, 93-point wine is what he chose to pair with his 2025 Masters Champions Dinner.
The 2019 Ritchie Vineyard Chardonnay, to be precise, was produced by Boich Family Cellar in the Russian River Valley, north of San Francisco, where the land lilts like the ground at Augusta National and the volcanic soil is great for growing grapes.
“White peach” and “Anise” aren’t hole names at Augusta. They’re two of the descriptors that Parker’s Wine Advocate included in its tasting notes alongside the 93-point score.
“In the mouth, it’s full-bodied, round and mouth filling,” the review went on to say, with “lightly citrusy” notes on the finish.
Surely, ’79 Masters champ Fuzzy Zoeller made similar remarks this past Tuesday evening as he tilted a back glass of the complex white, washing it down with Thai chili-inflected firecracker shrimp.
The firecracker shrimp was one of two appetizers on Scheffler’s menu. The other was cheeseburger sliders, which, like the meatballs and ribeye that came later in the meal, begged for a red. Not to worry: the defending champ chose one of those as well.
It, too, came from Northern California: the 2011 Vineyard 7&8, Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, from the Spring Mountain District of the Napa Valley, where cab is king.
It so happens that 2011 was a challenging year in the Napa Valley, according to Ed Manetta, a respected California-based sommelier. “Patience and diligence were required,” Manetta says. Every Masters champion would no doubt relate.
“Rich and full-bodied, intense and saturated” is what Parker’s publication said about this wine — language that also applies to ‘82 Masters champ Craig Stadler.
Both the wines Scheffler selected are collector’s items. But unlike the Champions Dinner itself, neither is off-limits to the general public. The Chardonnay fetches $300 for a three-pack, while the Cab retails online for roughly $200.
Odds are you’ll never play the game like Scottie Scheffler. But you can always dine like him at home.
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“This final chapter of June’s journey highlights the importance of hope, courage, solidarity, and resilience in the pursuit of justice and freedom,” according to the season synopsis.
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“The Handmaid’s Tale” returned earlier this week for its sixth and final season and the first three episodes had a lot to unpack.
After escaping Gilead, June (Elisabeth Moss) finally finds peace in Alaska where she is reunited with her mother Holly (Cherry Jones). However, her peace is short-lived, and she returns to No Man’s Land to successfully help husband Luke (O-T Fagbenle), and best friend Moira (Samira Wiley) escape a Mayday mission gone bad. On the other hand, Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) is attempting to build New Bethlehem, Gilead’s new, reformed community where refugees are welcomed back.
According to Hulu, June will fight to take down Gilead with Luke and Moira joining the resistance in the final season of Emmy-winning drama series. Serena, meanwhile, “tries to reform Gilead while Commander Lawrence and Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) reckon with what they have wrought, and Nick (Max Minghella) faces challenging tests of character.”
“This final chapter of June’s journey highlights the importance of hope, courage, solidarity, and resilience in the pursuit of justice and freedom,” the season’s synopsis says.
Adapted from Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel of the same name, “The Handmaid’s Tale” tells “the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States,” according to the series synopsis.
June/Offred, one of the few fertile women in the oppressive Republic of Gilead, known as Handmaids, “struggles to survive as a reproductive surrogate for a powerful Commander and his resentful wife” in society.
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New episodes of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 6 drop every Tuesday on Hulu at midnight ET / 9 p.m. PT (previous day).
Season 6 “The Handmaid’s Tale” premiered with the first three episodes on April 8. The final season of the series will have 10 episodes. Here’s what the upcoming schedule looks like:
Episode 4 “Promotion”: April 15
Episode 5 “Janine”: April 22
Episode 6 “Surprise”: April 29
Episode 7 “Shattered”: May 6
Episode 8 “Exodus”: May 13
Episode 9 “Execution”: May 20
Episode 10 “The Handmaid’s Tale”: May 27
How to watch ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 6
“The Handmaid’s Tale” will be available to stream on Hulu, starting April 8.
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A Big Bang Theory star is unrecognisable these days (Picture: CBS)
Fans have been stunned to find out what The Big Bang Theory star Simon Helberg looks like today.
From 2007 to 2019, Simon played the iconic Howard Wolowitz on the CBS sitcom, for which he won a Critics’ Choice award for best supporting actor in a comedy series.
Since then the 44-year-old has gone on to make appearances in Young Sheldon, Annette and Poker Face.
He had also previously starred in A Cinderella Story with Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray, George Clooney’s 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck, and won a Golden Globe nomination for his performance as Cosme McMoon in film Florence Foster Jenkins.
But, fans of the Big Bang Theory star might be shocked to see what he looks like today compared to his character Howard.
Taking to social media, viewers pointed out that he looks completely different.
Commenting on X, @GreatCheshire wrote: ‘Still can’t stop thinking about how Simon Helberg went from looking like this in Big Bang Theory to looking like this in Annette almost immediately after finishing Big Bang Theory.’
Do you recognise him? (Picture: Variety via Getty Images)
Simon played Howard Wolowitz on the CBS sitcom (Picture: CBS via Getty Images)
Fellow user, @gregshipo added: ‘The thing is he really looked like that for a good amount of the show but he wore a wig.’
@AtheismJesus added: ‘Every character on big bang theory was a caricature. More to do with cartoons than real people.’
Also adding, @yungxsnoy said: ‘Didn’t realize how big of a difference a neck can make until now.’
@erebedragons echoed this comment, by saying: ‘The most aggressive and immediate glow up.’
Fans of the actor were stunned by how he looks today (Picture: Variety via Getty Images)
Simon could be seen attending the AMC Networks premiere for Upfront held at Spring Studios in New York.
Some fans of the Big Bang Theory also claimed that another star looked completely unrecognisable.
Viewers pointed out how Jim Parson, who played Sheldon Cooper, looked almost like a different person after growing a beard.
Sheldon Cooper actor Jim Parsons has grown out a beard (Picture: John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images)
Jim also played Sheldon from 2007 until 2019 in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
During his time on the show, he became the world’s highest-paid TV actor and is now worth an estimated $160 million (£123,000,000).
He also won four Primetime Emmy Awards for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series and the Golden Globe Award for best actor in a television series musical or comedy.
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An unprecedented moment – FC Barcelona Things can be said to be going well for FC Barcelona at the moment. The men’s first team are on a great run, which is also the case for the blaugrana women’s team. As such and as it stands, both can still win every available competition this season.
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Ansu Fati is very affected and already open to leaving in the summer – Mundo Deportivo Without playing since January 4 in Barbastro and very unhappy with his situation, he is clear that he must find a club and a coach who believe in him.
An unprecedented moment – FC Barcelona Things can be said to be going well for FC Barcelona at the moment. The men’s first team are on a great run, which is also the case for the blaugrana women’s team. As such and as it stands, both can still win every available competition this season.
Szczesny still unbeaten – FC Barcelona Wojciech Szczesny still hasn’t lost a game in an FC Barcelona jersey. Green, yellow or orange, in La Liga, la Copa, the Super Cup or the Champions League, against all-comers, the Polish stopper has delivered every time.
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Wendy’s Frosty will forever remain one of the most loved items at the fast food chain. There’s a reason why the Dave Thomas-created treat—which is somewhere between a milkshake and soft-serve ice cream—has withstood the test of time since its induction as a core menu item at the first Wendy’s restaurant.
In fact, the Frosty is so loved that when Wendy’s started adding seasonal flavors to the menu like Strawberry, Pumpkin Spice, and Salted Caramel, fans complained that they could no longer order their favorite Vanilla Frosty. That’s the biggest problem with the Frosty: there can only be two flavors on the menu at the time. Or, at least that’s how it used to be.
In February, Wendy’s introduced a Thin Mints Frosty in collaboration with the Girl Scouts. The Frosty featured a unique Thin Mints-inspired cookie butter swirl—and, for the first time ever, customers could choose if they wanted the swirl in the Chocolate or Vanilla Frosty, which meant there were four Frosty options on the menu at one time.
After proving the classic Frosty is even more delicious with a simple swirl of Thin Mints cookie butter or Pineapple Mango purée (in the Spongebob-inspired Pineapple Under the Sea Frosty), Wendy’s has decided to add a new kind of Frosty to menus.
Wendy’s Announces New Frosty Swirls and Frosty Fusions
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At Wendy’s Investor Day in early March, the chain confirmed its plans to introduce new Frosty Swirls and Frosty Fusions to menus this spring.
“Frosty is one of the most iconic items on Wendy’s menu and we know that consumers are increasingly seeking new flavors and variety,” said Lindsay Radkoski, The Wendy’s Company’s U.S. Chief Marketing Officer. “Our new Frosty Swirls and Frosty Fusions will give our fans even more ways to enjoy this classic treat.”
Much like the Thin Mints Frosty, the new Frosty Swirls will allow you to add a sauce to your Chocolate or Vanilla Frosty. The Frosty Fusions will feature those same sauces, plus additional mix-ins to make for an even more delicious experience.
Wendy’s has finally shared more information on the six new Frostys, and when they’ll be hitting menus. The Frosty Swirls will soft launch on the Wendy’s app on April 11, with full availability at all restaurants nationwide beginning April 15. Then, the Frosty Fusions will join the menu on May 12.
The Frosty Swirls will be available in Strawberry, Caramel, and Brownie Batter flavors, which can be added to the Chocolate or Vanilla Frosty.
Then, later this spring, the Frosty Fusions will include a Caramel Crunch flavor, and two collaborations with Pop-Tarts and Oreo for a Pop-Tarts Strawberry Frosty Fusion and an Oreo Brownie Batter Frosty Fusion. The Frosty Fusions will feature the same Frosty Swirls sauces, but with the addition of crunchy mix-ins, like strawberry-flavored Pop-Tarts Crunchy Poppers, classic Oreo cookies, and toffee pieces.
At Investor Day, Radkoski also mentioned that the new add-ins aren’t the only thing changing for the dessert. Wendy’s will now have new Frosty cups, lids, and custom blue spoons “designed for the perfect eating experience.”
“This spoon allows customers to get every bit of Frosty goodness out of the bottom of the cup,” she explained.
In addition to the new Frosty Swirls and Frosty Fusions, Wendy’s also announced that it has plans to collaborate with Takis, the spicy rolled tortilla chip, later this summer.
Don’t mind us as we clear our calendars on April 11 and May 12 to try out all the new Wendy’s menu items.
PHOENIX — Brandon Hyde was partway through an answer during his pregame media session in the dugout at Chase Field when he stopped, losing his train of thought. Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, had just walked up those dugout steps and onto the field with his family.
“I’m in awe right now,” the Orioles’ manager said, laughing. “Greatest of all time showed up. Big O’s fan.”
That he is. Phelps wore an Orioles polo shirt and hat. His children sported Baltimore gear. The swimmer, who lives in Arizona but was raised in Baltimore, said the Diamondbacks are his and his family’s second-favorite team. But the Orioles are and will always be No. 1.
“I have a couple friends that play for them [the Diamondbacks] and a couple of guys in the front office here, and they knew I would be [wearing] this,” Phelps said, motioning to his Orioles gear. “They’d hear me saying ‘O!’ during the national anthem. I’m born and raised in Baltimore.”
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Phelps has fond memories of going to Orioles games as a kid with his dad, who was a state trooper and worked security at Camden Yards. Phelps had the chance to go into the clubhouse, meeting Cal Ripken Jr., Brady Anderson, Ben McDonald and others.
That created lifelong memories for Phelps. He played baseball, soccer and lacrosse and — obviously — swam growing up. He focused on swimming as he got older, and the 39-year-old became an American hero with 28 Olympic medals.
He’s excited his four sons are interested in sports, but Phelps is allowing them to find what they love. Phelps is the third-base coach for their baseball team. (“I will be sending kids home nonstop,” Phelps said. “I don’t have a stop button.”) He coached their flag football and soccer teams.
“For me,” he said, “being a dad, watching them compete, there’s absolutely nothing better.”
Phelps watched as his sons, Boomer, Beckett, Maverick and Nico, received autographs on baseballs from Gunnar Henderson and Ryan Mountcastle. Phelps said their household has sports on every night, and the Orioles are a fixture.
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“We are all into sports,” Phelps said. “And, for me, I want them to find a passion. If it’s baseball, awesome. If it’s soccer, whatever it is, I’m going to try to nourish it and help them be the best athlete they can be.”
One of his kids told Henderson he predicted the shortstop would hit a home run during Wednesday’s game. He received a fist bump for the support. Phelps threw his long-ball prediction to Ryan O’Hearn, but he’s mostly glad to see Henderson healthy again.
The Phelps family also went to Denver last year to support the Orioles. Phelps’ wife, Nicole Johnson, is from Colorado. During the postseason, Phelps comes back to Baltimore to watch.
Phelps knows how meaningful joining his dad at Camden Yards was growing up. It kicked off a lifetime of passion for the Orioles. Now he gets to watch his kids have the same wide-eyed look he had when they see this generation of stars, such as Henderson and Adley Rutschman.
“It’s kind of that full-circle moment, and it’s really special to see their excitement when they see the guys they root for every day on TV,” Phelps said. “Those are moments I remember as a kid and stick with you forever.”
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