Even though there are a lot of incredible things that have happen throughout the 2016 Rio Olympics, one story that EVERYONE was keeping their eye on was Michael Phelps attempting to add to his already ludicrous Olympic medal count!
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Before Tuesday night, the decorated athlete had 19 Gold medals all to himself and an astounding 23 medals total – and now he’s up to 21 and 25 respectively!
Phelps has been so dominant in these early days of the Olympics that other spectacular achievements have been put in the shade.
At 31 – the oldest individual Olympic swimming gold medalist ever – Phelps is still the master of the pool.
After winning the individual event, he returned to the pool an hour later to ease the USA to victory in the 4x200m freestyle and win his third gold in Rio. He then sealed his victory a kiss from his baby son, Boomer.
He won the gold medal at Athens in 2004 and again in Beijing in 2008 but suffered a shock defeat to South Africa’s Chad le Clos at London in 2012 when he misjudged his final lunge to the wall. The race turned out to be incredibly exciting and after it, Phelps did a Dikembe Mutombo impression, wagging his finger at his opponents.
“It was a stressful race and I feel good now it’s over”.
“Leaving everything in the pool one last time is what I’m going to do”, he said.
His hunt for further excellence continues on Wednesday when 20 Olympic titles are in play.
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The Hungarian, who had already won the 100-meter backstroke and 400-meter individual medley, finished just ahead of Great Britain’s Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and American Maya Dirado. If he comes through, he will compete in Thursday’s final. With a time of 1.56.36, 4/100ths of a second, the American swimmer won in front of the Japanese, Masato Sakai.
