Michael Phelps and Chad le Clos, once so friendly that they reportedly agreed to go swimming with sharks together (though there aren’t reports it actually happened), don’t appear to be on the best of terms at the moment.
It all started May 15.
Michael Phelps, who had sworn off swimming the 200m butterfly in his comeback in 2014, had started to warm to re-adding his signature event. Even though it’s among the more grueling of the six individual events he swam in his prime in 2004 and 2008.
“It’s interesting watching the world in this event,” Phelps told media at a meet in Charlotte, N.