Overall, Phelps has won 26 medals in five Olympics, with his first medal coming at the 2004 Games in Athens, where Leonidas used to race.
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In the 200 backstroke, Franklin’s signature event, her semifinal time was about six seconds slower than the world record she set in 2012. I think he will be back for Rio.
RIO DE JANEIRO Britain qualified fastest on Friday in the men’s 4×100 meters medley relay, threatening to spoil the party for Michael Phelps when he swims the last race of his epic Olympic career on Saturday.
He enthusiastically said: “He has never ever beaten Michael Phelps in this competition in the Olympic Games”.
“Michael, I’ll see you in Tokyo”.
When he touched the wall on Thursday, it was almost three seconds behind Phelps.
“Something happened” in the middle of the race, Lochte said, and he just fell apart.
The 1,000 medals would also represent nearly one-quarter of the total gold awarded at the Summer Olympics with no other country even reaching half that number.
“I apologize, I got my lanes mixed up”, he said, before solemnly saying correcting himself and saying “Phelps, with the gold”.
The most decorated athlete in Olympic history couldn’t pull off one of his patented comebacks in the 100-meter butterfly, easily held off by a swimmer a decade younger than Phelps. He had a dream, like many do, of winning gold one day.
The United States has hosted four Summer Games in St. Louis (1904), Los Angeles (1932, 1984) and Atlanta (1996).
“Phelps doesn’t look like he has this one in him!”
“It could be for 10 days, two years”.
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As he indicated in a post-race interview, Lochte plans to take a much-needed “mental and physical break” from swimming.
