In a historic race, Michael Phelps brought down the curtain on his glittering Olympic career when he helped the US win 4x100m medley relay gold at the Rio Games on Saturday, taking his personal tally to 23. While he finished the games in Australia with no medals, he started winning them one after the other ever since.
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“Just 25 days ago I couldn’t even train”, Nadal said, adding that he was unsure until days before the Games whether he would compete at all.
The win also set a new Olympic record in an event that the USA has never lost in the history of the Games, according to CBS Sports.
Arguably the greatest swimmer of all-time made that abundantly clear on Friday after winning the 27th Olympic medal of his career, a three-way dead-heat silver in the men’s 100 metres butterfly.
Joseph, when he was 13-years-old met Phelps in 2008, when the Olympian swimmer visited Singapore prior to Olympics being held in Beijing.
Michael Phelps took home a gold medal in his final race.
Phelps finished a career that spanned five Olympics with 28 medals, 23 of them gold.
David Plummer, Kevin Cordes, Tom Shields and Dressel qualified the USA a spot in the final; they’ll be able to collect gold medals, too.
Paltrinieri pulled away from the field and was under world-record pace much of the race before fading a bit at the end.
But Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, split 50.33 seconds in his 100-meter butterfly leg to give the US the lead, putting an exclamation point on a historic career that started when he burst on the scene as a 15-year-old at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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The U.S. also won 33 medals at Sydney in 2000. “I got silver tie in London so a three way tie is insane”. All three had a time of 51.14 seconds. That total gives him a Ledecky-like margin over the athletes with the second-most gold medals.
