PhotoPhoto“It’s kind of crazy to believe that Ryan and I have been on the Olympic team and national team together since 2004,” Phelps said of Lochte. gold-medal count, Phelps holds a 5-1 edge (Lochte won the 400 I.M. After homegrown swimmers like Thiago Pereira in the I.M., the partisan crowds at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium have reserved their second most-raucous cheers for Phelps. The city that raised and shaped Phelps paid its own tribute to its native son on Thursday by showing his I.M. On Tuesday, he won his 12th Olympic medal in what should have been a headline-hogging accomplishment.

Source: New York Times August 12, 2016 02:12 UTC