He has his third Gold medal. Michael Phelps won his third race on Tuesday morning, breaking his own world record in the 200 meter freestyle race.
He now has 9 Olympic Gold medals, with five more races to go. It is almost unthinkable that he could lose all five of his remaining races. While the press is marking 9 medals as the career Gold medal record (held by 4 others), if one were to get technical, the record is actually 10 Gold medals, held by Ray Ewry, but because two of his medals were in the Intercalated Games, held in Athens in 1906. While medals were given out, the IOC does not officially recognize them as “Olympic medals”, so his “record” is not seen as the highest career Gold medal count record. Ewry does hold the record for most individual event Gold medals, with his 8 from the Olympics, and Michael could surpass this by winning all five of his individual races in Beijing.
Tonight, Phelps will have two chances to break the career Gold medal record, and continue on the streak of record-breaking wins.
He will take them all, I think he was born in waterworld