RIO DE JANEIRO – There was more finger-wagging at the Olympic Aquatics Center on Tuesday night. This time it had nothing to do with doping, but rather the rope-a-dope.
A day after Michael Phelps’ chief rival in his signature event, the 200 butterfly, shadow-boxed in front of him in the ready room during the semifinals, leading to the now-infamous Phelps death stare, Phelps stormed to victory, becoming the oldest individual swimming gold medalist in Olympic history.
How many more records and firsts can this man bring us?
Phelps, 31, competing in his fifth and final Olympics, he says, won his 20th Olympic gold medal in a time of 1 minute 53.