Michael Phelps Breaks 2,000-Year-Old Record For Individual Olympic Titles

When he was 15, Michael Phelps dreamed about one day winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

With his Thursday night victory in the 200-meter individual medley at the Rio Olympics, Phelps now has 22 of them (and perhaps counting). Enough golds to further cement his status as the most-decorated Olympian of all time and somehow even more impressively enough individual victories to break a more than 2,000-year-old Olympic record , set by Leonidas of Rhodes in 152 B.C.

Its safe to say that 15-year-old Michael would probably be pretty pleased right now.

Phelps won the event with a time of 1 minute and 54.66 seconds, followed by Kosuke Hagino of Japan in second with a time of 1:57.05 and Wang Shun of China in third with 1:57.21. Ryan Lochte, the world record-holder in the event, finished in fifth place.

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