Michael Phelps gave his baby son Boomer a kiss as he added two more Olympic gold medals to his record total on Tuesday night Aug 09,2016 after leading Team USA to victory in the 4x200 freestyle relay less than an hour after defeating his arch nemesis Chad Le Clos.
Michael Phelps
made up for one of the rare losses in his brilliant career by
seeing off rival Le Clos to win the men's 200m butterfly - and his
twentieth Olympic gold medal, which he later admitted it was 'revenge'
for 2012.
'There
was so much emotion and so much build up for that race,' Phelps later
said of the race. 'I don't want to say it's revenge, but that's what it
was.'
The
most decorated Olympian in history has apparently never forgiven the
South African upstart for prizing away 'his' title in the event by five
hundredths of a second in London 2012.
It
was evident when Phelps, who would have had four successive wins in the
event but for that London race, was caught giving his rival a filthy
stare before Monday night's semi-final, which Twitter users immediately
flipped into memes poking fun at Phelps, including transforming his
'death stare' into Star Wars villain Darth Maul.
But
Michael Phelps let his unparalleled athleticism do the talking as he
raised the roof off the Olympic pool with yet another epic performance,
taking the lead early on and holding on easily to regain the title.
An
hour later, he returned to take what amounted to nothing more than a
triumphant victory lap in anchoring the 4x200 freestyle relay, the
crowd's deafening roar growing louder with every stroke, and scoring yet
another gold
Michael Phelps' victory in the 200m butterfly final makes him the oldest individual swimming gold medallist in Olympic history at 31
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