Michael Phelps returned to the Olympics arena in Paris not as an athlete, but as a legend. As Team USA scored bronze, silver and gold in the pool on Day 1, the Olympic great shared who he is watching out for in conversation with NBC News’ Lester Holt. Watch the 2024 Paris Olympics on NBC and streaming on Peacock, July 26 – Aug 11.
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#MichaelPhelps #Olympics #Swimming
The CC is not working
The legend is alive and well
he is only 39 years old😅
@@q3itachyon209 Some jackA** floated a video titled, he is dead
He has 4 boys!
why is he aging like that
@@user-jr6rt6ex9elike what? A human being?
Phelps not go this olympics paris?
No the Rio games in 2016 was his last Olympics.
he’s been retired for a while now. 2020 was the last one where he MIGHT have participated.
why is he retired? He still got it the Olympics isn’t the same without him
@@karltonlimeback6183 because to be in the Olympics most people are training 4 hours a day and eating chicken and rice for every meal. For four years straight. It takes a toll, it makes sense that after 16 years of Olympics he was ready to live his life outside of swimming
He’s done enough. It was time to retire.
Michael Phelps = The Greatest Swimmer & Olympian of All Time. 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉
Insane
He the swimming 🐐
@@ammarhassan2187 sure is
Sarah Sjöström has won more medals than Phelps 🤓
@@Abcdef12396 not olympic medals though
Swimming is one of my other favorite Olympic events beside Track and Field. Good to see Michael Phelps doing well, he has a beautiful family. ❤❤❤❤
The legendary Michael Phelps is the most successful Olympic athlete of all-time with a total of 28 medals of which 23 are Gold.
So what? Over half of the top multi-medal athletes are swimmers. Imagine if running had a 100m dash, 100 meter backwards run, 100 meter frog jump run, and a 100 meter leg hop. Oh and a com8nation of all those events in the form of multiple relays.
@@AJXOXO-vz1pn Haters gonna hate!
Let’s Go USA🇺🇸🥇💪💪💪
@AJXOXO-vz1pn lol ok buddy
@@RamZar50he didn’t have to say it like that, but logically it makes sense. Swimming has so many different medal competitions that you can win so many different medals compared to different sport.
This entitled pr1ck (yes many other swimmers worked just as hard) trying to stay relevant. Okay so you won more medals than others. What have you contributed to society?
Phelps has an insane amount of humility and so humble.
He was cheering on the last swimmer to break his last world record and has given so much to the sport of swimming and has made programs to teach kids to
Swim and is a
Big advocate for mental health.
@coreypearson7743 Wow so you’re saying he has humility and he’s also humble? That’s great
Wow! Such rage. Does other people’s happiness bother you so much? What have you contributed to society?
Agree. Phelps just likes to get attention and point doping fingers at innocent-until-proven-guilty athletes from other countries.
Bot…
God Lester Holt looks old that’s aging me worse than Michael Phelps
Olympic’s Great”est”
Lester Holt doing this great interview with one of the greatest American swimmers was a sight to see!
What is the deal with that GD hairdo?!!
I love it. We are not going back to the 50’s hairdo. Lol
The greatest athlete of all time, what he did at Beijing is unreal.
So unreal. I was 8 then
Just doping
@@sherkjlsjdf6334 At this level you can bet the majority are, you go doping and see if you can do what he does. There is no point of accusing of doping.
He looks soooo bad
If you hadn’t included your photo, we might let that go….
The swimming 🐐 ever
MICHAEL PHELPS DID A EXCELLENT JOB REPORTING ABOUT THE SWIMMING COMPETITION. VERY EASY TO FOLLOW HIS TALKING POINTS.
next gen male swimmers need to wear gstring only for better performance
Zava!
No inporta q ahora haya un frnacesito nadador. No estara a la altura de este
Michael–your hair?!?
Haha! He’s become an artist hippie.
It’s all that mental health “care” that he’s been getting.
love it
Squares still worried about someone’s hairstyle. Some rednecks never die, they just pick another person to hate…
Thanks Michael for supporting Katie. It’s been the worst weeks for her in terms of support and right setting to succeed in brining GOLD home for USA. . Things need to change for athletes! Just as they need to change in Space as well.
Pony boy needs a new hair style
WHY DO U SHOW US JUST THE CANADIAN TEAM????!!! WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER COUNTRY ITS RHE OLYMPICS AND SOME ARE ALREADY STARTED! COVERAGE OF WHAT??? You cover ALL basketball football…etc and when its gymnastic its atMIDDLE?
GOAT 🐐
Wow he got really old
Get men out of women’s sports…
I feel like Phelps will do a Spitz and attempt an LA 2028 comeback
Would be nice but unfortunately it’s absolutely impossible.
I think he should be a commentator for swimming.
He cameos a lot during olympic coverage; at least he did in Tokyo
Nothing’s the same now he’s gone 😢
Go home, Phelps
Phelps, do you believe in God and Karma?
Go USA🇺🇸👏👏👏
Phelps looks like he runs an edibles farm
Probably high quality products. Especially the ‘high’ part. Looks good for an old-timer of 39!!
Maybe he just needs to smoke another joint
We all do
why does he look like sokka
Greatest Olympian of all time. Michael Phelps is one of the reason why so many people have gotten into swimming!
Bro’s hairline is way back in 1960 😭😭
He made swimming so fun to watch. Once in a lifetime, an athlete will come along who is so great that it makes you watch a sport you wouldn’t have watched otherwise. It’s just what greatness does.
FUN?? ABUSING DECADE ON HGH HORMONES LOOK EAZY RIGHT KID??
@@GuiLover-bp8cxnice butthurt, who cares anyway? I watched Lance, I watched Michael
Saw him live in Rome 2009, fantastic I have photos
yes， he is a great asthmatic athlete
@@Mateuszyk Filthy cheating taints your legacy. YOU ARE A CLOWN LIKE IT OR NOT. DON’T MATTER IF CHYNA, FATMERICA, OR PRUSSIA DOES IT!!!
The GOAT. Give that man free bongs for life. 💪🏽🇺🇲🦅
Doping
@@sherkjlsjdf6334 Prove it.
@@dudemanismadcool uncle sam needs an idol for the people….
Why does he look LONG
He was born with gigantism. No 🧢
Kamela, you’re a liar.
اسطورة حقيقية
He looks like a woke vegan cross fitter
🐐
It’s sad that France decided to allow the mocking of God in the opening ceremony. Evil
The Almighty is above all your petty concerns. If you really believed, you would know that.
@@garyspence2128 is still sad. It’s not petty. However, it’s showing just how close it is. God is over all things, even your ungodly insults.
@@d.m.1421Insults…you got off light. I don’t have the time or the mentality to criticize you. Don’t know your journey or your struggles. I only know we must find our own path. Too old to let distractions like a sporting event carry me off my own battles. The powers on high give us strength to carry on, and don’t require us to defend their reputation against naysayers, real or imagined. That’s all I’m preaching. But don’t mistakenly call me evil. That offends me personally, and I will respond just like you.
He’s going to be President one day. Maybe in 20 years.
imagine how many records he would set with regular ears
chill😂they may have helped like little fins
That hair…
Michael Phelps the only guy rockin a man bun in big 2024 lol
That’s not a man bun, looks like an onion 🧅 on his head
how much steroids did this guy take
he still looks mean and lean- like he could still gold in every event
Swimsuit cheater
Most animated overreacting athlete of all time 😂 corny asf
Thanks DV-id. Now back to your hovel…
The year 2010 called. They want their haircut back
i wonder how he would fair against the competition now. would he make to the finals
Well, if you look at his times in the 2008 Olympics, yeah he would have won gold in the 200 free. He’d also have won silver in the 200 im and 400 im.
phelps rocking that 2015 hairstyle
Well to be fair.. we all know who’s the future, french beast called Leon Marchand. The guy broke every single records Phelps ever had.
Has like 1 medal to show for it too lol
@@Ghost-ir7yl https://youtube.com/shorts/I7FVVkiVCAI?si=creNyWGsAj8CAMTE
@@Ghost-ir7yl 2 now ! In the same day ! I think Leon has the same trainer Phelps had !
Leon will never match Michael Phelps Olympic gold medal count.
Michael best swimmer Best Olympian.
My best best athlete !!!
Hipster Barista/Yoga Instructor-looking Phelps is hilarious
The legend and my idol in swimming❤❤
a true champion 👌🇭🇲
Phelps diet when he was goating all medals: Fish
You are what you eat
too bad Katie didn’t deliver
LEON MARCHAND WILL BREAK A LOT OF PHELPS RECORDS
Of course he will. But he’ll never match Michael Phelps gold medal totals.
@@GDoggy-em2xc Cap
One of the greats
something about him makes me think of jake paul
whats up with the hairline?
…dolphin kick 50 yards without breathing…?…uh…thank…love…
Curious if he and other usa swimmers ever used PEDs?
Next generation will probably be trans 😂
Esse dai tem propriedade pra falar.
My favorite athlete ❤❤❤
he was a fish and now he is human it is an amazing transformation
Michael Phelps = Usain Bolt = GOAT
喘息治った？
Someone tell GOAT man buns need to stay in 2016
Beijing 2008 was the best ever.. no way to top that.
The reporter hair line
Saka from the Olympic water-bending tribe.
an absolute machine
Michael Phelps true Olympic great.
Guy went to Turkey for that hair
Ledecky has been my favorite athlete to watch this week, I honestly believe she can win the 800 & 1500 in 2028.
What makes him look so old?
manbun meaNS HE is thinking about 2028
Beau gos Phelps
Goodness me!!! Michael is graying!!! I feel old 😓
There will never be another Michael Phelps. He is one of those athletes that comes out once in a lifetime. The greatest athlete of all time.
Leon Marchand ?
Nono: Nope, not even Leon Marchand will be able to do what Michael Phelps did over his 16 year Olympic swimming career. Phelps winning 8 gold medals at the 08 Olympics, and winning what was it 30 something medals over 4 Olympics, mostly gold. Not to mention that Phelps in his prime held world records in both a sprinting event (100 meter Butterfly) and a mid distance event (400 meter Individual Medley).
he is good drug taker
Légende
the GOAT of swimming period
Does growth hormone make your jaw bigger?
Excess growth hormone causes side effects such as: Thickening of bones in the jaws, fingers and toes. The heavy jaw and large digits that result is referred to as acromegaly.
Fingers and toes are super useful in the swimming. All pro swimmers have these common characteristics. Some after career cover it up by keeping the beard or reducing the chin size by surgery.
I know what im talking about 🙂
Hkr: He was born with gigantism. No 🧢
Most decorated Olympic athlete of all time…The greatest athlete ever
Hey Mike – how is the asthma lately? … wait you haven’t had any since retirement? Hmmm…
The Legend ❤
The US Swim Team = Asthma Team = Legally Doping Team
Wish he would have gone to Tokyo that would have been even more epic. The goat!
His asthma has been cured forever?!
Is he not too old for a man bun?🤣 What a legend
White people rarely win awards in skill sports because these sports use more skill than strength, and doping is useless.