3 silver medalists at the same event!!

Surprisingly, there was a three-way tie for the silver in the 100m butterfly.

They stood on the podium together!

 

Michael Phelps (the US), Chad le Clos (South Africa), László Cseh (Hungary)

and

The Gold Medalist Joseph Schooling (Singapore)

(from: http://www.sankei.com)

The flag raising was like this.
I saw this style for the first time!

 (from: http://www.sankei.com)

 By the way,

Michael Phelps won 6 medals in the Rio Olympics and got 28 Olympic medals in total in his career. Amazing!

The 21-year-old Gold Medalist Joseph Schooling brought Singapore's first-ever Olympic gold medal!! and first-ever medal (any color) in swimming.

Congratulations, Joseph and Singapore!!

According to an article, Schooling met Phelps when he was 13 years old.

Phelps and Joseph boy

(from: the article)

8 years later,

(from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk)

Schooling will show great performance in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics too!!