Are people surprised? He retired after last olympics. And about 9 months decided to come back and start training for this one. You expect him to easily obtain golds while you have these guys that have been training years for this moment, compared to his measly months? On top of that, he would of had that gold in the relay if lochete wasn't fucking garbage.

too busy smoking weed and doing subway commercials

Well he made it to the finals of 200 fly, 4th overall. Looked like he was going to lose the semi but then pulled it together in the final lap and sprinted to 1st in his heat. Lets hope he doesn't make it that close in the final...I want to see him dominate again!

Man you people listen to the media WAYYY to much, get a grip. Phelps is still an all-star. He loses an event that he barely even trained for, and all of a sudden he's a has been? He still got freakin 4th place. 4th best in the world. For an event he didn't even train for.

Not to mention he basically carried the 4x100 free team to a silver medal. Others contributed, but he was by far the best swimmer on the team in that event.

Let's anoint Lochte the new face of US Men's swimming, after he beats Phelps in one event that Phelps barely trained for, only to have him choke it away in his next two events.

Phelps may not be as dominant as he was in Beijing, but the best olympic performance in history is a damn hard act to follow up. He's still an amazing, world class athlete, and the fly is his event. I don't think he's even close to being done yet.

This post was edited by BlackKnightsOfFistingPower on Jul 30 2012 10:22pm

This. Basically stated above he only put in a little bit of training compared to other people.

just lost in the 200m fly.

yep just saw

that was so close

Breaking: Michael Phelps breaks Olympic record with his 19th all-time medal

We can close this now

got his gold in the in the 4x200 team