Michael Phelps may have been untouchable in the course of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, but this time all around, Ryan Lochte is right here to give the gold medalist some stiff competitors.
"I believe overall, I am just a good deal older, smarter, and a much better athlete than I was going into Beijing," Lochte, 27, tells Us Weekly, who swam four occasions at the Games and took household two gold ( a single earned as a group) and two bronze. "I altered my eating plan and I started out executing heavier fat lifting."
His teaching looks to previously be paying off ahead of the upcoming London Summer Olympics, which kick off later this month. At the Olympic swim trials in June, Lochte defeated Phelps in the 400-meter personal medley (IM) finals -- it was the same race exactly where he nabbed the bronze medal behind Phelps (gold) and Hungarian swimmer Laszlo Cseh (silver) 4 many years ago in China.
But the 6 -foot- two chiseled champion, who holds 6 Olympic medals ( 3 gold, two silver and a single bronze) has a remarkably laid-back perspective when it comes to beating his U.S. teammate's record and the sport of swimming.
"If I beat him, I beat him. If I do not, I do not," Lochte tells Us about competing against Phelps, 27, during this summer's Video games. " I am not going to hold a grudge on him or something."
" I am not going to give up something for it," the athlete, who has previously nabbed spokesmodel gigs for Gillette and AT&T, tells Men's Journal of not letting his sport define who he is. " I'm even now going to be precisely who I am and have exciting with daily life. There is a lot of swimmers out there who make swimming their existence, but for me, it truly is just a sport that I do."
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