The last one was a gimme because the U.S. has never lost this Olympic relay and it seems Michael Phelps never loses.
Just in case, though, Phelps had his own personal closer, Jason Lezak, ready to pick up a save in a relay race that would stamp his teammate as the most golden of all Olympians.
It hardly proved necessary because Phelps did the heavy lifting himself this time, swimming past an Australian and a Japanese in the butterfly to hand Lezak a lead he wasn't about to lose. The only thing left was to celebrate and break out a calculator to add up the medal haul.
Medals don't lie and Phelps now has an astonishing 14 golds in his career, five more than any Olympian ever. His eight this year alone is just one shy of the most any other Olympian has won total.
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