--- title: Rio 2016 Olympics: Michael Phelps Celebrating Gold Medals description: Michael Phelps will swim for gold once again in Tuesday night's 200-meter fly final in Rio. Here are a few of his best post-win moments. canonical: https://time.com/4444756/rio-2016-olympics-michael-phelps-gold-medal-celebrations/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-09T16:22:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:15.841Z og:title: Watching Michael Phelps Celebrate His Olympic Wins Will Give You All the Feelings og:description: So much happiness og:url: https://time.com/4444756/rio-2016-olympics-michael-phelps-gold-medal-celebrations/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watching Michael Phelps Celebrate His Olympic Wins Will Give You All the Feelings twitter:description: So much happiness twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Michael Phelps Celebrating His Olympic Gold Medals Will Give You All the Feelings  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 9, 2016 4:22 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 9, 2016 4:22 PM UTC [Michael Phelps](http://time.com/4444374/michael-phelps-rio-olympics-game-face/) will swim for gold once again in Tuesday night’s 200-meter fly final of the [Rio 2016 Olympics](http://time.com/4442583/rio-2016-olympics-fiji-rugby-gold/) — just two days after leading the United States to victory in the [4×100 freestyle relay](http://time.com/4443776/rio-2016-olympics-ryan-held-michael-phelps/). The [31-year-old swimmer](http://time.com/4443581/michael-phelps-cupping-olympics/) is the most decorated Olympian of all time, having won 19 gold and 23 total medals over the course of the five Summer Games he has competed in. Phelps has also become one of Team USA’s most cheered athletes, inspiring fans with his epic comebacks and passionate celebrations. Here are a few of his best post-win moments. **When he powered the U.S. to victory in Sunday’s 4×100 freestyle relay:** **His .01 second defeat of Serbia’s Milorad Cavic in 2008’s 100m fly:** **When he won the relay for the first time in Beijing:** **His first gold of 2008:** **And of course, his first gold ever in Athens:** ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4444756/rio-2016-olympics-michael-phelps-gold-medal-celebrations/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4444756/rio-2016-olympics-michael-phelps-gold-medal-celebrations/"},"headline":"Michael Phelps Celebrating His Olympic Gold Medals Will Give You All the Feelings","datePublished":"2016-08-09T16:22:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:15.841Z","description":"So much happiness","url":"https://time.com/4444756/rio-2016-olympics-michael-phelps-gold-medal-celebrations/","keywords":["Newsfeed","olympics","Michael Phelps","Summer Olympics","Rio 2016","2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics","Rio 2016 Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4444756/rio-2016-olympics-michael-phelps-gold-medal-celebrations/","name":"Michael Phelps Celebrating His Olympic Gold Medals Will Give You All the Feelings"}}]}] ```