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By David Rieder.<\/em><\/p>\n

The 100 fly was supposed to be the perfect cap on Michael Phelps<\/strong>\u2019 career in individual events. The story had already been written\u2014Phelps would come from behind as he so often has in major races in the 100 fly. After winning the previous three Olympic golds in the event by a combined 28 one-hundredths of a second, Phelps would win his fourth straight gold medal in the event.<\/p>\n

Phelps started the final in lane two\u2014the first time he had been in that lane in 18 individual Olympic finals\u2014two lanes over from Joseph Schooling<\/strong>, the 21-year-old from Singapore, who had blasted a top-seeded 50.83 in the semifinals.<\/p>\n

In the next two lanes, two of the biggest rivals of Phelps\u2019 career, Chad le Clos<\/strong>\u2014he who beat Phelps for gold in the 200 fly four years ago in London and then four days ago sparked the social media phenomenon known as #PhelpsFace\u2014and Laszlo Cseh<\/strong>, the man who had won five Olympic medals, none of them gold and all behind Phelps.<\/p>\n

The script was written, the \u201cPublish\u201d buttons waiting to be pressed.<\/p>\n

But sports have a way of producing truly magical moments, and the seventh night of swimming produced four. In the second of those, the greatest swimmer of all-time passed the torch.<\/p>\n

Schooling went out in 23.64, three tenths of a second ahead of Aleksander Sadovnikov <\/strong>and more than a half-second ahead of runner-up Phelps.<\/p>\n

Phelps was used to those deficits. What was one more?<\/p>\n

But Phelps was not catching up\u2014sure, he had pulled even with just about everybody else in the field, but Schooling was maintaining the advantage and even pulling ahead.<\/p>\n

After three straight photo finishes in the event, this one was not even close. Schooling won in 50.39, three-quarters of a second ahead of the three silver medalists.<\/p>\n

Yes, three<\/em> silver medalists. Phelps, le Clos and Cseh all touched in 51.14, the first time ever that three swimmers had shared one medal at the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

In previous years, a scathing Phelps would have arrived to speak with the press after a loss and nitpicked the little details of the race with a scowl. Nothing was ever good enough. That was the drive that carried Phelps\u2014at ages 19, 23 and 27\u2014to the top of an Olympic podium a record-22 times, 13 of those instances for his own work and nine as a contributor to a group effort.<\/p>\n

But for this 31-year-old Phelps, that would do no good. Phelps\u2019 start was not great\u2014his 0.70 reaction time was tied for second-slowest in the field\u2014but Phelps will never again stand on the blocks, swing his arms over his back three times and hear the starter say \u201cTake your marks.\u201d<\/p>\n

This Phelps walked through the mixed zone and called out to a familiar black-capped figure walking away from the scrum.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaya!\u201d he called out.<\/p>\n

And Maya DiRado<\/strong>, the newly-crowned Olympic gold medalist in the 200 back, turned around, and she and Phelps embraced.<\/p>\n

When Phelps emerged to face reporters as a silver medalist for the third time in his career, one reporter asked, \u201cWhat did you think?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOf what?\u201d Phelps replied, his pure joy and pride for DiRado beaming from his face.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s what I had,\u201d Phelps said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a really long week, and I knew this was going to be a tough one. Joe has great underwaters\u2014he\u2019s a good swimmer. He was the most prepared one in that field. Nothing I can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phelps laughed about the irony of the entire situation of his three-way tie for silver.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Laszlo and I, we\u2019ve had just about as long a history as Ryan<\/strong> [Lochte<\/strong>] and I have. Me, him and Ryan have been through some wild IMs together,\u201d Phelps said. \u201cAnd obviously Chad over the last four years. I think it\u2019s a wild ending to the story for all three of us being on the silver medal podium.\u201d<\/p>\n

But then there was Schooling, who actually beat Phelps 51.58 to 51.65 in the latter\u2019s final tune-up for U.S. Olympic Trials two months ago, and Phelps gushed about what he believes to be Schooling\u2019s unlimited potential.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019d be pretty cool to see someone else break 50,\u201d Phelps said. \u201cIt\u2019s up to him where he wants to take it. Ball\u2019s in his court. As big as he wants to dream and as hard as he wants to work to do whatever\u2019s in his head.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schooling took in Phelps\u2019 praise, still coming to terms with the fact that he had won Olympic gold, in the process beating the man he first met as a 13-year-old when Phelps and the 2008 U.S. Olympic team trained for the Beijing Games in Singapore.<\/p>\n

Schooling called Phelps his idol, his driving force in the pool and the man after whom he modeled his own burning need to win. But quietly as he listened to Phelps speak, Schooling was humbled.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for Michael, I don\u2019t think I could have gotten to this point. I wanted to be like him as a kid,\u201d Schooling said. \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m anywhere close to those three guys next to me. Today just happened to be a good day for me. I think Chad, Laszlo and Michael should still be the face of butterfly.\u201d<\/p>\n

For sure, Phelps will remain the public face of swimming for some time\u2014his accomplishments, after all, have put him in the conversation among casual sports fans as one of the greatest athletes ever\u2014in any sport.<\/p>\n

But Phelps\u2019 time in the water will come to an end Saturday night after he competes in the men\u2019s 400 medley relay, and even after he broke his promise to stay retired four years ago, Phelps insists that this time, it\u2019s for real.<\/p>\n

Phelps swam three individual events at the Olympic Games, and to each he responded differently. There was the passion that poured out when Phelps reclaimed his gold in the 200 fly, the event that mattered most to him. Next up was the four-finger wag after his 200 IM gold medal, Phelps well aware of his newly-captured place in history.<\/p>\n

And after the 100 fly, Phelps\u2019 first medal these Games of any variety aside from gold, there was laughter in an ironic scene where Phelps, le Clos and Cseh all held hands as they stepped onto the podium to accept their silver medals.<\/p>\n

Sure, Phelps would have loved to win his final individual race\u2014he even admitted that. But instead, Phelps shared a medal with two of his biggest rivals and watched a young man for whom he has the utmost respect introduce himself to the world with stunning authority.<\/p>\n

Phelps smiled for himself, for his rivals and for fellow Americans DiRado, Katie Ledecky and his fellow 2000 Olympian Anthony Ervin<\/strong>, all gold medalists on the night.<\/p>\n

On this night, Phelps\u2019 time was slower, his medal was silver, but his legend never stronger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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