NEW YORK — Michael Phelps came back from a September trip to Milan and decided enough was enough.
It was time to make his retirement official by completing paperwork that would take his name out of a drug-testing pool. Though Phelps has said for months the Rio Olympics were his finale, these papers would make him officially ineligible for competition.
So Phelps turned to Peter Carlisle, his agent since turning pro at age 15 in 2001.
“I said to Peter, I was like, get the papers, can we just sign these things, so I don’t have to do the daily updates and everything?