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Phelps Wins What May Be His Final Olympic Gold Medal

RIO DE JANEIRO - Michael Phelps closed out the Rio Olympics in the only way imaginable.

Gold.

Phelps put the United States ahead to stay on the butterfly leg and Nathan Adrian finished it off, giving the most decorated athlete in Olympic history his 23rd career gold medal.

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If that was the end, and Phelps insists it is, what a way to go out.

He would finish his career with 28 medals overall, having won five golds and a silver at these games.

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