Bleacher Report · Aug 10, 2016
Staying Gold: Michael Phelps Has Lived a Lifetime in the Olympics
When Michael Phelps was first delivered into our world, he was just the baby at the Sydney Olympics in 2000—too young to do much yet, but when he grows up, look out. In 2004 in Athens, he was the young gun, the best—but still no Mark Spitz. In 2008 in Beijing, he was God in the pool.
And by 2012 in London, it was the farewell for grandpa Phelps' career.
So what exactly does that make him now? Phelps won his second and third gold medals of the Rio Olympics on Tuesday night in the 200-meter butterfly and then the 800-meter freestyle relay. He is dominating another Olympics, possibly headed for six golds.