Michael Phelps Only Makes Silver In 100M Butterfly
RIO DE JANEIRO (CBSNewYork/AP) -- There was a stunner at the Rio Olympics Friday night -- Michael Phelps was beaten.
Joseph Schooling of Singapore built a big lead on the opening lap and easily held off the hard-charging Phelps to win gold in the 100-meter butterfly. Thus, unless Phelps decides to come out of retirement again, his final individual race at the Olympics will go down as a silver. He still has a chance to win his 23rd gold medal in his final race of the Olympics, the 4x100 medley relay.
Phelps was sixth at the turn and Schooling -- almost exactly a decade younger than the 31-year-old American -- wouldn't let him pull off one of his patented comebacks on the return lap. The winning time was 50.39 seconds.
Phelps shared the silver with two other longtime rivals, Chad le Clos of South Africa and Laszlo Cseh of Hungary. They all touched in 51.14.
On Thursday, Phelps won his fourth gold medal of the Rio Olympics and 22nd overall with a victory in the 200-meter individual medley. For that occasion, Phelps became the first swimmer ever to win the same event at four straight Olympics.
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