Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Munhangemutange yake yechipiri musi waAugust 9, iyo ye200-metre butterfly, akava munhu wokutanga kushambira munhoroondo kuti aite magumo mashanu munhangemutange imwe cheteyo, pashure pokupedza ari wechishanu muna 2000, wokutanga muna 2004 na2008, uye wechipiri muna 2012. (Federica Pellegrini aizova muzvinabhizimisi wechipiri kuita kudaro muOlympics ya2020.) MuRio, akakunda zita raakanga arasikirwa naro kuna Chad le Clos makore mana akanga apfuura muLondon, achipfuura Masato Sakai ne0.04 s. Phelps akataura kuti kukunda zvakare zita iri kwave kuri chinangwa chikuru panguva yekudzoka kwake. Kurwisana kwokutanga uye kwokupedzisira kwechiitiko ichocho kwakarumbidzwa zvikuru somutambo wokudzokorora pakati paPhelps naLe Clos. Ukama pakati Le Clos uye Phelps akanga cordial shure muna 2012<unk>13 asi kwakawedzera muna 2014 apo Phelps akadzoka kubva pamudyandigere uye akataura kuti ano shavishavi nguva vakanga kunonoka. Mukamuri rokugadzirira pamberi pomutambo wokutanga, kurwisana kwemumvuri kwaLe Clos apo Phelps "aipenya ari mukona" kwakaparira meme yeInternet ine hashtag #PhelpsFace. Le Clos's Wikipedia biography yakatoparadzwa mushure mekupedzisira kwechiitiko. Pazera remakore 31, kukunda uku kwakaita kuti Phelps ave shasha yemurume akwegura kupfuura vose, uyewo shasha yemunhu akwegura kupfuura vose munhoroondo yekushambira kweOlympic, achirova rekodhi yakagadzwa naDuke Kahanamoku muna 1920, uye Inge de Bruijn muna
2004 zvichiteerana. Phelps akavawo mutambi wokutanga wekushambira akahwina menduru dzegoridhe dzomunhu oga pashure pemakore 12. Nhoroondo mbiri idzi dzakaputswa naAnthony Ervin mazuva matatu gare gare.