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    Michael Phelps: To a naked eye, Milorad Cavic won — 10th anniversary of Beijing butterfly

    rokurBy rokurAugust 22, 2018Updated:August 22, 2018No Comments1 Min Read
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    So many onlookers thought Milorad Cavic beat Michael Phelps in the Beijing Olympic 100m butterfly. Even Phelps himself.

    “To a naked eye, he won the race,” Phelps said in an Omega documentary first published in 2016.

    The 10th anniversary of that final — which Phelps won by .01 on a come-from-behind, half-stroke finish — is Wednesday night in the U.S./Thursday morning in China.

    It marked Phelps’ seventh gold medal of those Games en route to his final tally of eight, breaking Mark Spitz‘s record for golds at a single Games. But it wasn’t without a little controversy.

    Years later, Cavic jabbed again about the results that his Serbian federation unsuccessfully protested in Beijing.

    “I don’t necessarily feel like it was an injustice,” the Serbian said in the 2016 film. “Mistakes were made on my side. There were things that I could have done better which would have made it a definite victory for myself, but my gut instinct is that I won.”

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