Michael Phelps celebrates after competing in his last race.
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Michael Phelps finished the Rio Olympics, and nearly certainly his Olympic swimming career, fittingly, with one final gold medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay on Saturday night, having teamed up with fellow Americans Ryan Murphy, Cody Miller, and Nathan Adrian. Image credit: Chicago Tribune.
In the latest embarrassment to the Southern Hemisphere’s first Olympics, the U.S. Olympic Committee said Ryan Lochte and three other American swimmers were robbed by armed men who stopped their taxi hours after the final night of swimming.
Fans absolutely enjoyed his last performance at the Olympics.
Instead, Le Clos disappeared out of the medals to finish 4th as Phelps obliterated the field to take back his title.
“I wanted people to see the real me”.
“Going for 30 medals in Tokyo, I don’t think so, boys and girls”, Phelps said. I am retiring, but I am not done with swimming.
What an incredible race to watch, but Phelps announced after that it would be his last. In fact, he has frequented that particular area (The France House) where the robbery occurred many times and had no issues with crime.
With a total of five gold medals, one silver, and a remarkable comeback after having hard times, the Baltimore-born defeated his own professional climax achieved in Beijing 2008, when he won eight golds and broke Mark Spitz’s record.
And with Saturday’s victories, Team U.S.A. has had another record setting summer in the pool as well, taking a total of 33 medals (beating the 2000 and 2012 records of 31), and tying the record for team gold medals, at16.
The victor of the 100m and 200m backstroke races, Ryan Murphy, set a new 100m world record of 51.85s during the 800 medley relay.
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Phelps should bow out in style and his dominance in Rio is a fitting swansong for an athlete whose Olympic achievements may never be matched.
