This race was the final competition in the swimming category at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
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The U.S. men have never lost the Olympic medley relay, excluding the boycotted 1980 Moscow Games.
Michael Phelps won his 23rd career Olympic gold medal and 28th overall, swimming the third leg of the relay.
Britain’s Olympic champion Adam Peaty then swam the breaststroke leg in a scorching 56.59 seconds to move his team up from sixth to first place, with Cody Miller touching second for the USA at half-way.
Earlier that day, Michael announced that he will be retiring from professionally swimming after the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics.
The Singapore based swimmer Joseph Schooling made a history by beating 23-time gold medallist Michael Phelps in the 100m Butterfly Finals clocking 50.39 seconds at Rio Olympics at Rio Aquatics centre in Brazil on Saturday 13th August 2015.
The Olympic curtain came down on Michael Phelps Saturday, but not before he and his United States 4×100-meter medley relay colleagues could add another medal to his already record-breaking collection.
At the 2012 London Games, Phelps won 6 medals, 4 gold and 2 silver. “Chad and I have had some races over the last four years and Laszlo and I – I can’t even remember when I first raced him… so it’s kind of special and a decent way to finish my last individual race”.
But the night belonged to Phelps, who walked out of the arena for the final time carrying the American flag that his mother handed him from her front-row seat, right next to Johnson and little Boomer, with a gold medal around his neck.
The 19-year-old is the first Olympian since Debbie Meyer in 1968 to win the 200m, 400m and 800m free titles in one Games.
Great Britain won the silver and Australia won the bronze. Their gold was the 1,001st for the USA – the women’s 4×100 relay team got No. 1,000 shortly before.
He arrived at the 2016 Olympics already holding the record with 22 Olympic medals in his career and added five golds and one silver while in Rio.
Denmark’s Pernille Blume beat a field of world and Olympic champions to take gold in the women’s 50 freestyle and Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri won the men’s 1,500 freestyle after dominating nearly from the start. Australia’s Mitch Larkin, Jake Packard, David Morgan and Kyle Chalmers took bronze in 3:29.93.
That was enough for a second-place finish in the heats behind Great Britain. He’s kept the photo of them since: Just like Katie Ledecky and many other now-Olympic athletes, Schooling (a rising junior at the University of Texas) saw Phelps as his idol.
Speaking of comebacks, Phelps insists he won’t be coming out of retirement again to take on Tokyo in 2020.
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The IAAF has banned the only Russian in Olympic track and field from competition and she is appealing the ruling. “I’ve been able to do everything I’ve ever put my mind to in the sport and after 24 years in the sport, I’m happy with how things finished”. “I dreamt of doing something that no one had ever done before”. The Baltimore Bullet won six gold medals in Athens in 2004, eight in Beijing in 2008 and another four in London in 2012. So, they’re draining the larger pool to transfer almost 1 million gallons from a nearby practice pool.
