This is the cherry on top of the cake that I wanted.
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How did he feel this morning?
“I will be watching, cheering everybody on, but I will not be in the pool competing”, he said of future competitions.
Joseph Schooling of Singapore, the surprise victor of the men’s 100-meter butterfly, was delighted to share the podium with silver medalists Phelps, Chad le Clos and Laszlo Cseh, three swimmers who “changed the face of our sport”. “I can’t say that about London”. But the swimming sensation feels that this time around, he’s truly ready to let go. If I hadn’t had come back, I wouldn’t have know what to do with myself and would have been frustrated with myself for not giving myself a chance.
“I think he’s going to come back again, just because when you get to this stage, we thrive off that excitement of getting on those blocks and racing the seven best other racers in the world”, Lochte said.
Nicole and Boomer have been a constant poolside presence at Rio 2016 and Boomer has become a social media star in his own right.
American swimmer Michael Phelps is a stroke from the wall in the 200-meter butterfly and his nemesis, South Africa’s Chad le Clos is behind, mid-stroke, looking directly at Phelps, the man who is about to beat him for the gold medal.
‘Between now and London, I was so much more emotional during these Games, I think that showed at times on camera, that’s the difference. He told Costas he felt the tears well up from the moment he walked into the pool to warm up and shared one final pre-race conversation with his longtime coach Bob Bowman.
“I’ll teach him”, the proud dad continues of how he’ll be involved in his son’s swimming if that’s the path he chooses to take. “Younger guys we have coming up in the sport are going to take over”. And I was thinking: “my last warm-up, my last warm-down, my last time putting on a suit, my last cold tub – I did all that”.
“It means so much to me to have the support from Maryland and the D.C. area, ” she said. I don’t have anything that’s left.
He also wants to help grow the sport of swimming, a sport that Phelps himself has done more than anyone else to make more popular than ever before.
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The result gave Phelps his fifth gold medal of these Games as he extended his record as the most successful Olympian in history.
