Phelps confirms right wrist is broken

Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, by his own admission, has never been particularly graceful when walking on dry land. In the water, there is no one faster or sleeker. But on solid ground, he's a self-described klutz.

That clumsiness seems to have caught up with him. Yesterday, during a promotional event in Southern California, Phelps confirmed that he broke a small bone in his right wrist two weeks ago while trying to enter a car in Ann Arbor, Mich., where he is training for the Beijing Olympics.

"I'm a fish out of water. I'm a clumsy person," Phelps told the Associated Press. "I fell and went to catch myself and I just tweaked it the wrong way."

He said the injury isn't serious and shouldn't affect his preparation for the 2008 Olympics. He continued to do dry-land training after the injury, but after he experienced some swelling, doctors ordered a magnetic resonance imaging and found a small crack. They decided to insert a small pin in his wrist to accelerate healing.

"It's fine. Everything's going as we planned," said Phelps, who is from Rodgers Forge. "We were taking it very, very cautiously and just trying to get it to heal as fast as we could so we could get back to swimming."

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