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Oops. Announcers mix Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte in the race. /- -

Michael Phelps has yet claimed another gold medal (the 22nd of his career) by dominating the field in the 200 meters individual medley.

But CBC viewers could be forgiven for thinking Lochte won. Phelps and Lochte swam side by side and separated Phelps on the final length of the pool. Except CBC advertisers got their mixed ways and thought it was Lochte who blew everyone out of the water.

"Finally, it will do it," one of the announcers shouted. "Ryan Lochte beat Michael Phelps is going to this event in the games!"

It was only after a few moments of confusion he realizes his mistake and, in a voice almost broken heart, apologized for his mistake.

in defense of the advertiser, it is difficult to read the names on the swim caps with all the splashing water, especially where the arena advertisers demanding race.

in fact, it was Lochte who unfortunately ended on the medal standings.

However, we must know to never doubt the power of Phelps in the Olympics.

Baltimore Ravens stopped their game to see Michael Phelps swim /- -

Thursday night NFL preseason (finally) started and one of the games featured Baltimore Ravens host the Carolina Panthers.

Baltimore is also the home of Michael Phelps Olympic champion and knowing he had a race tonight, the teams scheduled to show up on its jumbotron. Thus, in the fourth quarter of the game, both teams break just long enough to see Phelps swim, albeit on a slight delay.

Of course, we know how this race turned out :. Phelps won handily no matter what advertisers CBC said

the fans of M & T Bank Stadium were no problems picking out and gave what was probably the strongest Courage they give all night as Phelps won gold.

The Ravens won the game with limited action star or team. Still, the Panthers kept their game face after all managing to honor the Olympic champion Phelps.

Please see Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte eating ice bath spaghetti /- -

All we really want our friendships is one person to eat pasta with not ?

Well, it appears that is exactly what Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps. In one recent Instagram photos Lochte, both are chowing noodles while sitting in baths of individual ice.

None of them wear shirts, of course, because none of them have ever worn shirts even once.

Good thing these two are speed demons or paper containers have got wet!

Here's why Olympic medalists not receive flowers Summer Games in Rio /- -

Olympic medalists traditionally cradle bouquets they hold gold, silver or bronze from a stepped platform. But not this year in Brazil.

Instead, the best gymnasts in the world, runners, table and trampoline are pongers clutching small sculptures 3D logo of the Rio Olympics.

passing ephemeral flowers long trinkets is a small part of most great mission of the Olympic organizing Committee to limit the environmental damage of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2016, a Rio spokesman said 2016 Mashable .

Image: FRANCK FIFE / AFP / Getty Images

Thanks to its sustainable development program - called "Abraca" (Portuguese for "Kiss") - the committee has promised to limit the huge amounts of water, energy, food and commodities which are engulfed in the 45 -day show.

The organizing committee said that "not only took the challenge, but fully embrace the cause."

The organizers estimated the Olympic venues will use about 29,500 megawatts of electricity, more than twice the capacity of the massive hydroelectric dam Itaipu in Brazil. Olympic-guzzling vehicles around 23.5 million liters of fuel related, enough to fill the tanks of about 500,000 Honda Civic.

Rio 2016 planners have promised to use renewable energy such as wind and hydro, biofuels and equipment to provide some of the energy requirements of energy saving games.

picture :. AFP / Getty Images

The panel also Projected the Olympics will mean about 19,000 tonnes of food waste, garbage and solid waste - equal to five times the amount of waste solid than 6.3 million inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro produce in a year, according to estimates of. United Nations Development Programme

As part of its plan to reduce waste, the organizers made changes to the medal ceremonies

The Rio Olympic team said it has made nearly 2,500 total medallions -. 812 gold, 812 silver and 864 bronze - using sustainable methods and materials.

picture: Getty Images

US legend Michael Phelps swimming for example, so far won four medals for first place made from gold mined without the use of toxic mercury. Silver and bronze were made with recycled materials 30 percent. The colored ribbons that hold the medals around athletes necks are partly made of recycled plastic bottles.

So it is normal flowers that are thrown without ceremony after each event, would be cut ceremonies, the Rio 2016 spokesman said in an email.

"in the interest of sustainability and innovation, it was decided that the flowers would not be awarded to winners of medals in these Olympic Games," the spokesman explained.

"attributed the flowers are usually thrown away or, even if kept, would struggle to survive in the tropical Brazilian climate. "

spokesman added that some flowers are always displayed on the stage to keep the tradition of the Olympic Games.

But small changes, such as the scrapping of the flowers, and even larger corrections as composting organic waste, will not be enough to resolve the wider environmental problems surrounding the Olympics and its host city.

picture: Getty Images

Rio officials face much criticism for failing to clean the sewage filled the city, especially in the Guanabara Bay, the place of the sail to the 2016 Olympics Associated Press found his 16 month long investigation that the Rio waterways are still contaminated with raw human sewage and teeming with dangerous viruses and superbugs.

on Guardian reported a golf course built for the Olympics Marapendi encroach on the reserve, home to rare butterflies, pine and other species unique to the region.

And two Olympic pools this week became electric green after warm weather and a lack of wind caused an outbreak of algae.

Inspired guy gets a facial tattoo killer game /- -

Michael Phelps Michael Phelps goosebump inducing game face is now immortalized on someone's flesh.

Phelps became even heard 'round the world on Monday when he glared - hard -. to fellow Olympian Chad le Clos, who made the odd choice of shadowbox before Phelps in the ready room before the rivals clashed in the semifinals Butterfly 200 meters

Not smart, Clos

in fact, Phelps outswam rival both that race and the final -. and that is what inspired the owner of a tattoo shop in Toronto Ricky Fung put Phelps' angry face on his own arm.

"I was not even a big fan Phelps before that, and I'm not really a fan of swimming, "said Fung ESPN ." But the view out and win the way he has been an inspiration to me. "

and we guess that's also reason that all

Michael Phelps says goodbye to the pool with Olympic gold /- -

Michael Phelps left as it began. Win

The most decorated athlete in Olympic history to win gold in Rio de Janeiro in what he insists will be his last ever competitive swim. .

Take the 400 medley relay Saturday Phelps and his teammates, Ryan Murphy, Cody Miller and Nathan Adrian, dominated by the starting gun

emotional Phelps, 31, took a moment to turn and face an adoring crowd after the race. His mother, Debbie, and her fiance, Nicole Johnson, watching in the stands with tears in his eyes. The son of Phelps Boomer, quickly becoming a social media star itself, was also there to witness the victory of his father.

Nevertheless, Phelps remained typically understated as he took a lap of honor with his team around the pool, the flag of the United States in tow.

Twitter lit up with tributes, no less than the White House.

There 't an entirely smooth race for 2016 Olympics Phelps held off to win gold in his last individual race Friday night Olympic 21, Joseph tuition Singapore, who beat his idol in the 100 meters butterfly.

Phelps has maintained that he will not get out of the supplementary pension for Tokyo in 2020. "I'm not four years and I'm standing there," he said.

"I am able to do everything I've ever set my mind in sport and after 24 years in the sport, I'm happy with the way things ended."

swimmer debuted at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 at the age of 15. He went away empty, but has launched a 16-year campaign that would leave him with 23 gold medals and 28 medals overall.

in a Facebook video posted before the event, Phelps insisted Saturday's race was the last of his career. "Go for 30 medals in Tokyo? I do not think boys and girls. It is more. That's it, "he said.

Many Americans and swimming fans worldwide will be wishing it was not 't so

L The Associated Press contributed reporting

BONUS: .. Michael Phelps Olympic break

400 Singaporeans gave Joseph schooling massive welcome at the airport after his gold medal /- -
SINGAPORE - After his historic victory for the gold medal at the Olympics the week -end, do you expect any more little welcoming Joseph schooling when he hit the floor of the house?
More than 400 people were waiting to greet the 21-year champion at the airport early on Monday morning. When his plane landed at 05:30, Changi Airport conducted a water pistol to salvation, and it came out while wearing his gold medal, reports Today .

Changi Airport

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made school history Friday night, winning the 100m butterfly, beating his idol Michael Phelps, who tied for silver with two other greats of swimming Chad le Clos of South Africa and Laszlo Cseh of Hungary.
his father, Colin, was there for him and his mother, May, at the airport to greet the fans jostled for a look at the new idol of the country.

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Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky restart their iconic #TBT picture /- -

By now, everyone has seen the throwback photo of Michael Phelps giving a 9 year old Katie Ledecky his autograph .

now that the two are both gold medalist Olympic swimmers, they found the time to take a quick break with murder in Rio Resume "awww" shot inducing.

10 -year-old original photo, which was provided by the family of Katie Ledecky shows Phelps signing an autograph for a young, smiling Ledecky.

Their updated version, shared on Instagram by USA Swimming, turns the tables. Phelps waits patiently for an autograph Ledecky. It is lovely smile even broader than 9 years Ledecky was, and Phelps Ledecky nail-I've-signing autographs-were-for-hours-I-don't-smile more expression.

Unfortunately, Phelps awkward arm placement was not honored in the school.

Watching Michael Phelps Katie Ledecky show how to ask with all these Olympic medals /- -

Michael Phelps knows a thing or two about having to pose with many Olympic medals. The biggest all-time swimmer in Olympic history has more than two dozen medals in five Olympic Games, so he posed for a magazine cover or two in the past

Thus, at a recent photo shoot for Sports Illustrated , he drew on his experience to help fellow champion Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky find the best way to pose with his medals (five in all of Rio, four gold and one silver) for a photo shoot.

Make the moment even more fun is the presence of his Olympic multi-medal compatriot Simone Biles, the US team five-medal gymnast, receiving some praise from Phelps: "Did you see how high she flies?"

you can see the result of the final cover below and more photos of the session here.

But the adorable interaction between Phelps and Ledecky caps a great Olympics throwback to the pair. Earlier in the Rio Games, a photo of Phelps Ledecky meeting 10 years ago resurfaced and made the rounds on social media.

After the photo exploded and Phelps and Ledecky time put more gold for the US side, the pair recreated the photo with the roles reversed.

never finish the Olympic Games Phelps, Ledecky and Biles. Never end.

Bonus: Katie Ledecky gets done

Image: Alex Wood / Mashable