Michael Phelps was repeatedly pressed by Today show host Matt Lauer, but the most accomplished swimmer in Olympic history didn’t budge.
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Michael Phelps captured his 23rd and – he claims – final Olympic gold medal on 13 August as the US sealed a week of terrific performances in the pool by winning the men’s and women’s medley relays.
Three-month-old Boomer will eventually see the medals – all 23 shiny gold ones of 28 total – and understand. “This is the best place I’ve ever been in my life”.
Phelps briefly retired after London 2012 before announcing his return to competition in April 2014. “This is just the start of something new”.
There’s a good chance he could go into coaching, maybe even assist his longtime-time swim coach Bob Bowman at Arizona State University.
Phelps hauled in five gold medals and a silver in the Rio Games. “Come on”, as they laughed sarcastically.
“No matter what country you swim for you’re indebted to Michael Phelps”, said Murphy after winning his third Rio gold. This is it. I’m done. I really want to try to, not only in the USA, but also change the drowning rate that we have.
Olivia Smoliga, Katie Meili, Kelsi Worrell and Abbey Weitzeil also collected gold medals for swimming in the heats. I am NOT going four more years. She already became the first African-American woman to win an Olympic swimming title with her win in the 100 free. Since then her career has skyrocketed.
And although teammates Lilly King, Kathleen Baker and Dana Vollmer had all won Olympic medals before, they celebrated excitedly among themselves as Manuel moved further clear of the field.
Jonah Shelton, a 9-year-old swimmer, has some pretty big plans for his future. She shattered her own world records in both the 400m and 800m. “So I think that’s why I will still incorporate swimming in part of my weekly routine, just because it’s calming and soothing for me”, he said.
“Just sharing that with three other women is just icing on the top of the cake”. I don’t want to miss anything, ‘ he added. After all, “Boomer’s probably 16 or 17 pounds,”Phelps toldE!” “Their taxi was stopped by individuals posing as armed police officers who demanded the athletes’ money and other personal belongings”.
She quickly realized how old that made Phelps seem.
Kathleen Baker was inside the backstroke world record after 50 metres, with Canada’s Kylie Masse second, but had dropped to fourth at the handover to 100 breaststroke champion Lilly King with Denmark leading.
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He went on to compete in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, where he claimed six gold medals and two bronze. “This is an accomplishment we celebrate together”.
