Phelps gets 20th gold with 200m butterfly win

[Archae]

Source: WBAY, ABC affiliate in Green Bay, WI

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Read more: http://wbay.com/2016/08/09/phelps-gets-20th-gold-with-200m-butterfly-win/

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[oswaldactedalone]

1. And #21

With his anchoring the 4X200M freestyle relay.

[CentralMass]

2. That was sweet,

[Skittles]

3. pot-smoking slacker

[StrictlyRockers]

4. For anyone too lazy to google, that puts him in the lead for total medals by 7 at 25.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_Olympic_gold_medalists

And most golds by 12 at 21 gold medals

Must be all the ganja.

[63splitwindow]

5. GREAT! He beat the the guy he gave this look to yesterday...

[StrictlyRockers]

6. That's what I'd look like after a few months of USADA drug testing, too.

JK, I don't smoke ganja.

But I can tell he'd sure like to!!

[roamer65]

8. Alcohol and MJ aren't seen as performance enhancing drugs by the IOC.

They pretty much ignore them.

Their position on Phelps and his MJ was it was not their concern or jurisdiction.

[StrictlyRockers]

10. Really? Time to start training for the Olympics then!!

Anyway, don't spoil a good joke with the facts.

[roamer65]

7. Phelps knows how to put on a good show.

I will miss him when he retires.

[63splitwindow]

9. His accomplishments are mind boggling. To be the BEST athletic anything for that long...

[Akicita]

11. Like Lance Armstrong. Oh, I hope not.

[63splitwindow]

12. Yeah, thought about that. I hope not too.

[the_sly_pig]

15. Lance got screwed in my opinion...

He lied about the enhancement drugs which was disappointing, but the UCI did not strip Bjarne Riis, Jan Ullrich, Marco Pantani of their wins even though they were all known dopers after the fact. Same as Lance.

Greg Lemond first raised the doping issue in the 1980's and the UCI did nothing except make him a pariah. Miguel Indurain won 5 straight tours. I find that curious.

Anyway, everyone was doping during Lances tenure, he just did it the best.

tsp

[TexasBushwhacker]

18. I agree

That doesn't dismiss that he lied about over and over for SOOOO long, but I always thought he got targeted because he started competing in big Triathlons. I think everyone knew biking was dirty.

[Princess Turandot]

13. The guy in the yellow jacket is Le Clos, from S Africa...

He'd scored an upset victory over Phelps in the event in 2012 by a thin margin; Phelps was determined to reclaim the title.

Before an earlier match, Le Clos(24) was shadow-boxing and dancing around directly in front of Phelps in the ready room, where the swimmers about to race don't usually interact with each other as they mentally prepare themselves. That's when the photo was taken. Le Clos' father got into the act as well, announcing that there was no way that he wouldn't win.

After the race, the commentators remarked that giving Phelps even more incentive to push himself had perhaps been an ill-conceived idea.

[melm00se]

17. Darth Phelps n/t

[cali]

19. I thought that was great to until I read that that guy's parents are both battling cancer

Now I'm cutting him some slack for his antics.

[Goblor]

14. Ego much?

I've heard of him, but until tonight I had no opinion. Frankly, I was disgusted by his obvious ego-driven actions/hand signals asking the crowd to adore him. Ugg...

[TexasBushwhacker]

20. Considering there isn't a big market for professional

swimmers, I don't see anything wrong with enjoying his moment. I'm sure this is his last Olympics. He gets some endorsements (Speedo) and the occassional commentator gig but swimmers have to move on to other careers. Mark Spitz became a dentist.

[VWolf]

16. In the now-famous words of Bart Simpson:

I can do that - I just don't want to.