Another night, another two Gold Medals heading back to Bloomington
Indiana's Lilly King and Cody Miller each scored Gold Medals to close out the swimming events in the Rio Games. Both swam the breaststroke portion of the 4x100-meter medley relay for Team USA.
King was the first to medal, jumping in the pool in third place and touching the wall in second place to help the U.S. get into position to win. She swam a 1:04.93, which was slower than her individual 1:04.93, but left teammates Dana Vollmer in a good enough spot to clinch the gold.
The U.S. finished in 3:53.13 to beat Australia (3:55) and Denmark (3:55.01) to pick up what is being recognized as the 1,000th Gold Medal in Summer Olympics history for Team USA.
Miller, an Indiana graduate, picked up Gold Medal No. 1,001 a short while later in what was a historic swim. Forever more, he can say he was a part of Michael Phelps' last Olympic effort and 23rd Gold Medal. Phelps plans to immediately jump into retirement.
Miller had the Americans in second by the time he handed off to Phelps after a 58.03 split. Phelps, perhaps the greatest Olympian of all time, put the U.S. back ahead in the butterfly before handing it off to Nathan Adrian to close it out in the freestyle.