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Michael Phelps claims 20th and 21st career Olympic gold medals
In an unforgettable display of Olympic power Michael Phelps won two more finals to take his historic all-time record load to 21 golds and entrench his legendary status.
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Sakai, 21, a student at Waseda University, won the silver medal in the men’s 200-meter butterfly on Tuesday at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, clocking 1 minute 53.40 seconds – 0.04 behind Phelps in the final.
“Mission accomplished”, he said after claiming the 20th Olympic gold of his career, a number that became 21 after he helped the U.S. team win the 4x200m freestyle relay in the evening’s finale. With two gold medals in one night, the most emblematic Olympian victor of all times extended his reckon to a total of 21 Olympic gold medals.
Phelps said he had been prepared to leave “every ounce” in the pool, and strain every sinew. “It’s just insane. It’s mind-blowing. It’s always fun getting in the water and racing him, he’s tough, he finished on me last time really well”, Phelps said about the upcoming final race. “That’s the closest I’ve ever come to throwing up after a race”.
Phelps hustled off the deck after his victory celebration, having only about an hour to get ready for his second race of the night – anchoring the U.S.in the 4×200 freestyle relay.
What has made Phelps so special is his excellence across multiple events and distances and the way he has been able to sustain it over the years.
It could be last chapter in a friendly rivalry for the ages: Phelps plans to retire (again) after the Rio games.
“I told Bob (Bowman, his coach) when I came back how bad I wanted that 200m fly”, added Phelps, who puffed his cheeks out on the podium, trying to contain his emotions.
CHAD le Clos walked away with an Olympic silver from his newest battlefield, but he was still a little disappointed he had not won gold at the Rio Games.
The 27-year-old, who set an Olympic record of 2:06.58, had already won the 400 individual medley on Saturday and 100 backstroke on Monday. Kind of having that come to an end, it’s insane to think about. “I didn’t say anything to anyone else, but there wasn’t a shot in hell I was losing it”. Ledecky, 19 is often called the future of American swimming; Phelps has sometimes been seen as part of its past.
Both Le Clos’ parents – mum Geraldine and father Bert, whose exuberant celebrations captured the public’s imagination four years ago – have cancer. But there was no emotional victory this time round. Well, le Clos was caught looking on his way to a fourth-place finish.
Making up for one of the few losses in his staggering career, Phelps held off Japan’s Masato Sakai by a mere four-hundredths of a second.
“It was good to see he was awake”.
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“I want what’s best for this team”, Franklin said. Ledecky surged, Sjostrom faded – “I didn’t think I was going to be as close as I was”, she said, “I was actually surprised” – and the luck of the USA men’s basketball team cast itself upon Ledecky again. The 2012 team happened to go to the London Aquatics Centre the night she swam her lone race in 2012.