RIO GOLD Michael P helps pushes of f the star ting block for his first event of the 2016 Olympic Games 4
US swimming superstar Michael Phelps was fired up at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro Brazil His toes gripped the starting block Fans cheered and shouted When I was on the block I honestly thought my heart might explode out of my chest Phelps said I was so hyped tonight and so excited Phelps and his teammates were swimming in a relay race The 4 100-meter freestyle relay was his first event of the Rio Olympics But Rio wasn’t his first Olympic Games Phelps had already won more Olympic medals than any athlete in history 5
P helps swims his par t of the relay and puts his team in the lead 6
When teammate Caeleb Dressel finished the first leg of the race Phelps burst into the pool His long arms pulled him through the water His legs thrashed behind him He raced as fast as 6 miles 10 kilometers per hour At the end of Phelps’s leg the United States had a big lead Phelps after racing his leg of the 4 100-meter freestyle relay at the 2016 Rio Olympics 7
