Michael Phelps adamant that he will stay retired

The Baltimore native has won 23 golds, three silvers, and two bronzes, in an unprecedented career that has now come to an end.

USA’s Michael Phelps displays his national flag during the medal ceremony for the men’s 4 x 100-metre medley relay final on Sunday night, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “He’s too special”, Bowman said when asked if he was now hunting for someone to take Phelps’ mantle.

In the 400 metre individual medley, Phelps smashed the world record to win his first ever Olympic medal and didn’t look back. I wanted to change the sport of swimming. “And right before the last time I went out, I saw his footprint and I pretty much started crying because it was my last race and I was happy he was able to make it out for it”. “It’s definitely been something I’ve been looking forward to for a long, long time and I guess I felt very motivated all week”.

“I’ve met my goals and I think, more importantly, I’ve had more fun than I could have ever imagined”, Ledecky told reporters at a news conference the day after her final swim in Rio. He initially retired after the 2012 London Olympics, only to decide about a year later to return to the pool.

The ad shows Phelps’ (who snared his 23rd gold medal in the Rio pool) gruelling training regime under the tagline “It’s what you do in the dark that puts you in the light”.

The United States continues to lead the gold and overall medal counts after picking up a couple notable golds on Saturday.

Most of these kids train four to five times a week, for two and three hours at a time to hopefully have a collection of gold medals of their own someday. “I think so – I really think so”, Lochte, 32, said on Friday.

“I will be watching, cheering everybody on, but I will not be in the pool competing”, he said of future competitions.

Additionally, Phelps managed to break a almost 2,200-year-old record with his 13th individual gold medal last week in the 200m individual medley.

“This is what I wanted to finish my career”.

“He might be there, but I won’t”, Phelps said with a smile.

Phelps is now the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in all, but he is getting used to carrying a new kind of hardware in his role as dad.

“When I chose to come back I wanted to do it the right way”.

At a Press Conference last Saturday Phelps shares something about his private life talking about his baby boy and wedding plans.