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Michael Phelps - the Most decorated Olympic Swimmer of our times He is taking it all, a winner all the way, Phelps is creating a history... |
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RIO DE JANEIRO — This should be stressful, because he is 31 and no longer technically in what would rank as the best racing form of his life. That was years ago, when his body would respond on command. Throttle back, no problem. The gas was always there. How, then, did Michael Phelps end up hanging on the lane line, in an Olympic final no less, waiting for the rest of the field to finish? He touched the wall and won the 200-meter individual medley Thursday night at Olympic Aquatics Center, and when he did, a race whose result might have been considered in question just two minutes earlier was instead etched in stone.
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How, then, did Michael Phelps end up hanging on the lane line, in an Olympic final no less, waiting for the rest of the field to finish? He touched the wall and won the 200-meter individual medley Thursday night at Olympic Aquatics Center, and when he did, a race whose result might have been considered in question just two minutes earlier was instead etched in stone. |
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So, then, the Phelps revolution of the sport continued in myriad ways as he closes his career. That he crushed the 200 IM on such a night also seemed to fit. Though he first made the Olympics in the 200 butterfly, back when he was a floppy-eared, gangly-armed 15-year-old, it is the two events he swam Thursday night in which he had never lost gold at the Games. The final of the 100-meter butterfly — presumably the last individual race of Phelps’s career — comes Friday night, and he positioned himself fifth by swimming a semifinal heat of 51.58 seconds. | ||
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By now, Phelps has put his fingerprints all over each event he swims at the Games. But in no event does he have such a personal history with a single athlete as he does with Lochte in the 200 IM, a Bird-vs.-Magic, Manning-vs.-Brady dynamic that has helped push each to widespread recognition in the U.S. Swim fans know the event, one pool length each of the butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. People walking down the street know only the characters that swim it, and that they always seem to be within an arm’s length of each other.
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