Michael Phelps on Saturday August 4th won his final gold medal raising his total to 18 with 22 total medals. He is now going to retire with the most medals by anyone in Olympic history. His accomplishments speak for themselves, but the question is now what will he do? Some are speculating that he will come out of retirement like his favorite athlete Michael Jordan and participate in the Olympics in Rio. Michael Phelps is not sure what he is going to do.
He mentioned traveling the world, but he is not sure. The idea of not having practice and workouts to go to is completely new to him. It might take some time before he figures out how to use all that free time. Who knows maybe the free time will lead to him making a suprising return in 4 years. Either way 22 medals has put him in the record books and puts his stamp on the Olympics.
I agree with you that Michael Phelps might make a comeback for the next olympics. I believe that right now it is easy to be content and think that he has accomplished all that he wants to. But if he is as competitive as I think then it will be eating away at him for the next few years. Michael Phelps is an incredible athlete and I hope he comes back for one more Olympics to even further his world records.
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