Twenty-eight medals in five Olympics spanning 20 years – Michael Phelps is, and will remain for while, the greatest Olympian of all time.
His tally of 23 Olympic gold medals is more than what 66 countries have won in 120 years and is twice as many as any other Olympian in the world. However, Phelps hasn’t always been winning at life.
After getting arrested twice for drunk driving and being suspended from swimming for using drugs in 2009, Phelps had announced retirement after the 2012 Games.
But a part of him knew he wasn’t done just yet.
The American swimmer returned to the pool and won five golds and a silver at the 2016 Rio Olympics, taking his Olympic medal tally to 28 – 10 more than any other athlete in the world.
Twenty years after swimming competitively and become the GOAT, Phelps is sailing through life with his adorable family.
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