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Michael Phelps sisters were both competitive swimmers who introduced him to swimming at age 7 as an outlet for ADHD.

Additionally, according to the Wikipedia article on Phelps... "Phelps idolized Australian Ian Thorpe as a teenager, modeling his public image after Thorpe, and later watched videos to try to emulate the Aussie's famous six-beat underwater dolphin kick off the turns"

Most likely it was Mark Spitz.

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who were 3 people that influenced michael phelps

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his two sisters

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Mark Spitz

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