When asked how he mentally perceived winning his final Olympic race with gold, Michael Phelps noted…
“That’s really when everything started to hit me,” he said, “knowing it was the last time I’ll wear the stars and stripes in a race.”
He had tears when he raised his arms to the Olympic Aquatics Stadium crowd as he walked off the pool deck. They welled up again when the fans greeted his last step up on an Olympic podium with a roar.
“It’s not even once in a generation, it might be once in 10 generations that someone like Michael comes along,” said Phelps’ longtime coach, Bob Bowman.
The rest is now history…
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