The last one? Four years ago, in London 2012, Michael
Phelps (USA), after concluding his fourth Olympics and totalling 22 podium
presences, announced his retirement. Came Rio 2016 and also Phelps, for six
more medals (including five victories), for an accumulated 28 medal-tally
(among them 23 Olympic titles)!
The last (are we sure?) triumph of the best athlete
ever happened in the last session of the Swimming finals at the Rio Aquatics
Stadium, with the gold of the US 4x100m medley relay in a new Olympic record of
3:27.95. The previous best was also from the North Americans and was set in
Beijing 2008. Phelps
swam the butterfly leg and was decisive in the final victory, as Adam Peaty had
brought Great Britain to the first place after the breaststroke leg.
Phelps leaves Rio (and the pools?) with six medals,
distributed as follows: gold in the 200m fly, 200m IM, 4x100m free, 4x200m
free, 4x100m medley, and silver in the 100m fly. No other athlete in the
Olympic history has a comparable record: besides the total number of 28 medals,
Phelps is obviously the only competitor to ever win at least six medals in four
consecutive editions of the Games. Moreover, in Beijing 2008, he was the first
athlete ever to earn eight gold medals in a single Olympics! Superlatives are
not enough for the man who has brought Swimming to another dimension in the
last 12 years!
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