Advertisement Continue reading the main story“He was the reason I swam the butterfly,” le Clos told The New York Times recently. What was Phelps thinking while wrapped in his warm-up gear? At the 2012 Games in London, le Clos handed Phelps his first international defeat in a decade, in the 200-meter butterfly. For his part, Phelps told NBC that he had been “trying to not really even look at” le Clos’s gyrating. In an interview with NBC after his heat, Phelps claimed he had been thinking about “nothing” as le Clos wriggled and shadowboxed in front of him.

Source: New York Times August 09, 2016 15:16 UTC