Why phelps lost

He made what seemed impossible real. When he retired again after his fifth Games, Rio in , Phelps brought his total Olympic medal count to 28 with 23 of them gold , 13 of which were in individual events. Without winning that race, he still would have broken 39 total world records, many of them his own. He still holds world records in three relays and the IM and only lost the and fly marks this summer. Without winning that gold medal, his failed attempt at eight would be a footnote in a still-exceptional career filled with unprecedented versatility and unparalleled longevity.

Phelps swam in his first Olympics in in Sydney when he was 15 and his fifth and final at For his first Games, he qualified in one event, the fly, and placed fifth — the only time he never medaled. When he finished second at the U. Olympic Trials that year to eventual gold medalist Tom Malchow, broadcasters described him as already being in a class of his own as the youngest male swimmer to qualify for the Olympics since They never could have predicted how much of an understatement that would be or how inconsequential that stat would become by the time Phelps climbed out of the pool for good.

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Football Matches. All Matches. Fantasy Tips. Story Progress Back to home. Michael Phelps will not be stripped of Olympic medals Michael Phelps retired from swimming with more medals than any other Olympian. Don't expect him to lose any of them because of an ad campaign for Louis Vuitton. Michael Phelps retired from swimming with more medals than any other Olympian. Phelps' longtime agent, Peter Carlisle, dismissed any suggestion Friday that the retired swimmer may have violated International Olympic Committee rules when provocative pictures for the campaign were leaked on the Internet during the London Games.

The IOC, under a provision known as Rule 40, prohibits athletes from promoting non-official sponsors during a nearly month-long period around the games. Among the possible sanctions: stripping medals won by an offending athlete. Phelps was arrested for a DUI when he was only 19, and in , Phelps was criticized after a photo came out of him smoking a bong.

In , Phelps was again arrested for drunk driving. The champion of three Olympic games who had accumulated 22 medals fell into a deep depression. He sought help at a treatment and addiction center in Arizona called The Meadows.

Nobody is. I will be the first one to admit a mistake when it's made. That's the only way you are able to move on and learn from that mistake," says the swimmer. Phelps has turned a corner, though. He feels more stable now than he was a couple of years ago. Nine out of 10 mornings, he says he wakes up happy.

Before his time in the treatment center, Phelps says there were periods of his life where he would wake up in a bad mood six out of 10 days. In Rio last year, Phelps added six medals to his stack, bringing his tally of Olympic medals to 28, and making him the most decorated Olympian in history. Phelps is a husband and new father, and he is launching his business career, which he aims to model after Michael Jordan's.