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Not many people can claim they beat Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps in the swimming pool. Penn State safety Mark Rubin can. Eight years ago, when he was 14, Rubin beat Phelps in a few races in northeast region swim tournaments, including the 50 freestyle, 100 free and 100 backstroke. But victories didn’t come very often over Phelps, who is from Baltimore. Rubin was a state high school champion swimmer from the Buffalo, N.Y., suburb of Amherst. “I beat him five, six, seven times,” Rubin said of Phelps. “He beat me 20, 30, 40 times.” The Associated Press
