This is the type of photo only friends pose for, and it’s great.
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Schooling, now a student at the University of Texas, won silver in the 100m butterfly at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and collected Singapore’s first world championship swimming medal when gaining bronze in the same event.
Michael Phelps’ last individual event wasn’t a golden one. I think so. I really think so. “I forced myself to eat it”.
Interestingly, Phelps’s mother, Debbie, also told the Today Show that there was seemingly a chance of Phelps making another run at Olympic gold.
“That would be wonderful”, Debbie Phelps said. He now finishes his career with 27 overall Olympic medals, with 22 of them gold.
It is widely believed – and stated by the man himself – that Rio 2016 will be Michael Phelps’s final Olympics.
As usual, Phelps pulled off the gruelling double, advancing to this morning’s final with the fifth-fastest time behind the fastest qualifier, Joseph Schooling. Afterwards he credited Phelps for inspiring him. “I’m happy with how things finished”. I swore in London I wasn’t coming back and this is final.
Phelps finished tied for second with South Africa’s Chad Le Clos and Laszlo Cseh of Hungary, who joined le Clos in a trio of trash talk with Phelps last summer about who is the top butterflier in the world.
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Meanwhile, Joseph Schooling from Singapore shocked the field by winning the gold in Olympic-record time (50.39). Schooling beat Phelps in his semfinal heat on Thursday night, a “victory” that caused people back home to hail their native son as an Olympic hero.
