#3 Phelps is the only athlete to win double-digit gold medals in the Olympics
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Out of Phelps’ 28 Olympic medals, 23 of them are gold, the highest for any individual who has participated in the Games. As a matter of fact, no one else has come close to reaching the 14 medals between him and his closest competitor. He has won more than double the number of gold medals as the second most decorated Olympian of all time, Larisa Latynina.
Latynina is a popular former Soviet Gymnast who won 14 individual and 18 total Olympic medals, with 9 golds. Before the American, it was Latynina and her fellow Soviet gymnast Nikolai Andrianov who held the record for most gold medals in the Summer Games.
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