Michael Phelps with all his Olympic medals
- 1/22
Athens Men's 400m Individual Medley -- Phelps' first gold
WireImage - 2/22
Mens 4x100m Medley Relay Medal Ceremony
Shaun Botterill - 3/22
Mens 200m Free Medal Ceremony
Stuart Hannagan - 4/22
Mens 200m Butterfly Medal Ceremony
Stuart Franklin - 5/22
Athens 2004 Olympic Games - Day 4 - Swimming - Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Final
WireImage - 6/22
200 IM Gold in Athens
Bongarts/Getty Images - 7/22
Athens 2004 Olympic Games - Men's 100m Butterfly Final
WireImage - 8/22
Athens 4x100m Free Relay
Daniel Berehulak - 9/22
Olympics Day 2 - Swimming
Al Bello - 10/22
Beijing 4 x 100 freestyle
Adam Pretty - 11/22
Olympics Day 4 - Swimming
Jed Jacobsohn - 12/22
Olympics Day 5 - Swimming
Adam Pretty - 13/22
Beijing
Alexander Hassenstein - 14/22
Olympics Day 7 - Swimming
Phil Walter - 15/22
Olympics Day 8 - Swimming
Jamie Squire - 16/22
Olympics Day 9 - Swimming
Adam Pretty - 17/22
London
Jamie Squire - 18/22
London
Al Bello - 19/22
Phelps breaks the record with gold in London
Adam Pretty - 20/22
Olympics Day 6 - Swimming
Getty Images - 21/22
Olympics Day 7 - Swimming
Al Bello - 22/22
Olympics Day 8 - Swimming
Getty Images
Will Phelps return to the pool for the 2016 Games? Reports say yes; he says no. But the fact that he's still such a topic, nearly a year after his last Olympic swim, shows how much he's changed swimming. — Eric Adelson
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