Phelps is now the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in all, but he is getting used to carrying a new kind of hardware in his role as dad.
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The 19-year-old Ledecky joked that she was proud to be part of Phelps’ final Olympics – twice. “And it turned out pretty cool”.
“I am proud of the work I have put in over the last two-plus years to be able to get back to where I am today“, Phelps said.
If measured against the 205 countries now in Rio, the Republic of Phelps has more gold medals than all but 32 of them. I don’t think so boys and girls; this is over. Katie Ledecky of USA and Joseph Schooling of Singapore, both 19-years-old, had a picture of Phelps signed by the swimmer himself.
The U.S.A. men’s swimming team wins another gold medal.
“Between now and London, I was so much more emotional during these Games, I think that showed at times on camera”, he said of his experience in Rio. Michael Phelps, the vanquishing athlete has had a phenomenal career in swimming. He entered six weeks of inpatient therapy, where he got in touch with some of the issues that seemed to lead him astray. Puig is ranked 34th and is the first unseeded women’s singles gold medalist since tennis returned to the Olympics in 1988.
Britain took the silver medal and Australia bronze. Gatlin was asked about comments made by swimmer Lilly King, who said athletes who had previously been banned for doping should not be in the Olympics, including Gatlin and his USA sprint teammate Tyson Gay.
“No matter what country you swim for, you’re indebted to Michael Phelps for bringing a lot of exposure to the sport and making it a little more mainstream”, Murphy said.
But a blistering breaststroke leg from 100m gold medallist and world record holder Adam Peaty, whose split was 56.59, saw Britain move into first place. It’s the first US gold in the event since 2004.
Vollmer teamed up with backstroker Kathleen Baker, breaststroker Lilly King and freestyle sprinter Simone Manuel to claim victory in Saturday’s race in three minutes 53.13 seconds.
He has been done competing in the Games since Thursday, and the Olympic swimming competition ended Saturday night. That made him the oldest swimmer to ever win an individual medal on Thursday night.
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Then Adrian held off Duncan Scott in the final straight to give the US their 16th swimming gold medal in Rio.
