Michael Phelps is officially a retired man!
The Olympic swimmer made his retirement official by completing paperwork that would remove his name from a drug-testing pool, NBC Sports reports. Although Phelps has said will be retiring for months following the Rio Olympics, these papers will make him ineligible for competition.
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Phelps wanted all the daily questions surrounding his retirement to end, so he turned to his agent since 2001, Peter Carlisle.
“I said to Peter, I was like, get the papers, can we just sign these things, so I don’t have to do the daily updates and everything?” said Phelps, referring to the whereabouts system that allows drug testers to find athletes for surprise tests. “That was brutal [the whereabouts system]. It’s good. I’m still in the pool [recreationally]. I’m still not coming back.”
After his last race in Rio, Phelps reportedly said of the drug-testing paper, “Were the papers here, I’d sign them tomorrow.”
This article originally appeared on our sister site, Womanista.com.
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