Ryan Lochte‘s bid to squeeze out one more Olympics is finished. As confident as we can be that there will never be another Michael Phelps, it’s even less likely that another Lochte will come along.
Lochte, who at 36 is one year older than Phelps, finished seventh in the 200m individual medley at the Olympic Trials in Omaha on Friday night. The top two, Michael Andrew and Chase Kalisz, go to Tokyo.
“This ain’t the end of the road,” Lochte said on NBC. “There’s a lot more I want to accomplish in the sport of swimming, whether it’s in the pool or outside the pool making swimming bigger.