Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian with a neck-straining 19 Medals at the 2012 Olympics!
Phelps won silver in the 200 butterfly and finished off the historic night by winning gold in the 4×200 freestyle relay earlier on Tuesday. Before the relay Phelps told his teammates: “You better give me a big lead,” Phelps said with a big grin, “and they gave it to me. So I just wanted to hold on. And I thanked them for being able to allow me to have this moment. It has been a pretty amazing career but we still have a couple of races left.”
Even though he won silver in the 200m butterfly, he was upset with the finish: “Obviously I would have liked to have a better outcome in the 200 fly,” Phelps said. “You know, I was on the receiving end of being touched out. Chad swam a great race. It’s obviously my last one, I would’ve liked to win, but 1:53 flat isn’t a terrible time.”
Well Phelps may not have won the 200m butterfly for the 3rd consecutive game, but 19 medals is not too shabby!
In addition Michael Phelps is also the recipient of a pair of Sunny Sleevez 50+UPF sun sleeves.
Phelps nabbed the royal blue “Skate Style” sun protectors at the Kids choice awards where he was honored as “Favorite Male Athlete”
FUN FACT: While training, Michael needs an Olympic sized breakfast! He eats two egg-and-cheese sandwiches, a bowl of grits, a large omelet and a tall stack of chocolate chip pancakes.
Sweet! He looks like he’s gonna tear someone apart too.
I’m always perplexed when someone criticizes him for not doing as well this year. There’s a reason winning 19 medals is a record. Its obviously not easy to do. Congrats Michael……….
He was fantastic these olympics – without even training as hard (which I’m sure is still MUCH, MUCH harder than I’ve ever trained for anything) as he did in 2008. I saw an article today that said he may get stripped of some medals because of his Louis Vuitton ad he did before the Olympics. That’d be tragic.
I admire him, he did a really great job….