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Michael Phelps retires after 22nd Olympic medal

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In the span of nine years, Michael Phelps is one of the world’s greatest Olympians, accumulating twenty-two Olympic medals including eight at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

Michael Phelps is the ‘most decorated Olympian’ of all time / Photo by: Chris Graythen, Getty Images Europe

Only aged 27, the US swimmer has called for early retirement and announced that he would not compete in Rio for the 2016 Olympics.

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