Most recently, Phelps, with help from his fellow Team USA swimmers, won his 20 career Olympic gold and he did so with style. Where is Phelps’ father?
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“Leaving everything in the pool one last time is what I’m going to do”, Phelps said.
With U.S. swimmers Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky garnering so much of our collective attention, it’s easy to forget that there’s another American out there who is quietly becoming one of the winningest Olympians of all time.
Phelps, now 31, is already the oldest man to win an individual gold in swimming.
The rivalry between Le Clos and Phelps had turned a little nasty in the build-up to the race, especially when Le Clos’s pre-swim warm-up in the semi-finals had rubbed Phelps up the wrong way.
Milking the acclaim of the Brazilian crowd, Phelps climbed past the massed bank of poolside photographers to kiss fiancee Nicole and baby Boomer after an emotional medals ceremony.
Michael Phelps launched his assault on a fourth successive Olympic 100m butterfly title Thursday but added an awkward complication to his schedule after a rare miscalculation.
“That was a really tough race and it hurt really badly”, Ledecky said. That’s three more gold medals for an athlete who has none.
In other events Wednesday afternoon, world-record holder Cate Campbell of Australia was top qualifier in the 100 freestyle with an Olympic-record time of 52.78.
He bested Phelps in the 400m IM in the 2012 Olympics, and while he has mostly remained in Phelps’s shadow during the games, outside of them-and particularly during Phelps’s brief retirement-Lochte has been the world leader of late.
Elliotte Friedman of the CBC got his lanes messed up and called the entire race as if Lochte was winning, when in fact it was Phelps who was leading by a wide margin. “That was the last time I’ll ever swim it”. The summer going into eighth grade, Phelps swept the medleys in Athens and Lochte earned silver in the 200m IM behind him. “The state of Maryland is getting it done, we got a couple of medals to bring back to the good state of Maryland”. Lochte has won it at every World Championship since 2009.
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Phelps blew the field away to win his fourth Olympic 200m individual medley gold – and a TWENTY SECOND overall.
