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Phelps hails role inspiring his own defeat

Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 09:23
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Phelps hails role inspiring his own defeat
Michael Phelps. Photo: Roger Sedres (Image SA)
INTERNATIONAL NEWS - Michael Phelps has acknowledged a "small part" in his own dramatic Olympic defeat by Singapore hero Joseph Schooling but bears no grudge.

Phelps spent most of the Olympic swimming contest beating swimmers he had inspired into the pool. But Schooling, who was photographed with Phelps as a 13-year-old, stepped out of line in the 100m butterfly, spoiling the US legend's all-win record in Rio.

"It's incredible," Phelps said Monday of falling to a swimmer 10 years his junior, who unabashedly points to the American great as his inspiration and role model.

"I would have liked to have won.
 

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