If his statements about the Rio Olympics being his final Olympic Games, Michael Phelps went out on a high note.
Phelps, Ryan Murphy, Cody Miller and Nathan Adrian combined to set an Olympic record with a time of 3:27.95, and Murphy got them going in the first leg. Swimming the backstroke Murphy set world and Olympic records with a time of 51.85, and from there the Americans were in business. While Miller had to swim the breaststroke alongside Great Britain’s Adam Peaty, he was able to do enough to keep the U.S. in the top spot.
Phelps and Adrian handled the final two legs, and in the end the quartet won America’s 1,001st Olympic gold medal just minutes after the women’s 4×100 medley team delivered No.