10 years later, Ledecky is now Phelps’ teammate and has five Olympic medals to solidify a legacy of her own. This time around, however, Ledecky, 19, was the one doing the signing. Boomer Phelps, the newborn is the apple of his parents’ eyes and now the most adorable baby on the Internet.
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“One of the biggest things I really wanted back was the 200 metre fly victory back”, said Phelps, who was beaten in that event by Chad Le Clos at London 2012. To be exact, you have 28 medals (23 gold).
“If you’re going to world champs, and you win, that means you’re going to be the world champion of that year”, he went on.
In Rio, Ledecky took gold in the 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle (there is no women’s 1,500m freestyle at the Olympics), and the 4x200m freestyle relay, and silver in the 4x100m freestyle relay.
“I told I told a bunch of them, I won’t be far away, if they ever need anything to reach out”, he revealed.
Katie Ledecky set a new Olympic record on Thursday in qualifying for the women’s 800-meter freestyle final.
“I was walking with my backpack on one shoulder, the baby’s backpack on the other shoulder and the vehicle seat in one hand so daddy duties are on me”, he said.
While pursuing her dreams, Ledecky got an opportunity to meet an accomplished Olympian – Michael Phelps. “It goes to show you that not only is this guy the greatest swimmer of all time and the greatest Olympian of all time, he may be the greatest athlete of all time”.
3 I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. Sixteen nations in all won Rio swimming medals, but host nation Brazil was shut out.
History was made in the 100-meter butterfly where Phelps won silver.
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And the U.S. Olympic team also achieved a milestone on the final night of swimming. In Athens, he claimed six gold and two bronze medals. “This is an accomplishment we celebrate together”.
