To answer the question many of you have: No, Michael Phelps finishing second with two other swimmers in Rio’s 100m butterfly finals Friday night isn’t the first three-way tie in swimming.
It was just over a year ago that the 200m breaststroke finals at the world championships in Russia ended with three swimmers earning bronze models.
So while it seems pretty nuts Phelps will share a podium with two of his biggest rivals, it’s not unprecedented, even though it seems like one of the more improbable things in the universe.