Nineteen? Really?
Congratulations, Mr. Phelps. Your 19 medals over your Olympic career is the most of any athlete ever, and you have several more opportunities for more. That’s mind-boggling. Hell, eighteen is mind-boggling. That’s how many medals Larisa Latynina won for the Soviet Union between 1956 and 1964 from Melbourne to Rome to Tokyo. In an oddity, …