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Olympic performance Thursday, winning the 200m medley to become the first man to win the same individual swimming event at three straight Games. Phelps, already denied trebles in London in the 400m medley and 200m butterfly, delivered a vintage performance to win in 1min 54.27sec and collect his 20th career Olympic medal — and his 16th gold.
“The three-peat was hard,” Phelps said. “I knew it would be a cool thing to do and add to the resume to be the first guy to do it, it hurt.” He subdued his great rival — team-mate Ryan Lochte — who settled for silver in 1:54.90. Hungarian Laszlo Cseh earned bronze in 1:56.22. Although it was his first individual gold of the 2012 Games, there was no fist-pumping celebration from Phelps but instead a smile of quiet satisfaction as his mother and sister cheered from the stands. There was no roar of celebration, no mighty splash or fist-pump. Instead Phelps smiled in quiet satisfaction, and caught the eye of his mother and sisters cheering in the stands. “I spot my mom and sisters in the crowd after each race,” he said. “It has hit my mom pretty hard. I am the last Phelps to come through — my sisters have all retired, so this is special.”
On the podium, he accepted his medal with another smile, then heaved a huge sigh as the crowd roared. As the anthem played he pressed his lips together, trying to control his emotions. “On the podium, I tried to compose myself as much as I could,” said Phelps, who still had the semi-finals of the 100m fly coming up. “I was hurting too, I was in a lot of pain. “My legs were hurting and I had to lean against something before they gave out.”
Even so, Phelps was happy to find himself on the so-familiar top step of the podium. “It is a relief to win an individual gold,” he acknowledged. “I fell short in the first couple of events, it is cool to do something no other male swimmer has done.” In London, the 27-year-old American has been far from the dominant figure who captured an unprecedented eight gold medals in Beijing.