It didn’t matter. Phelps, wearing a teammate’s cap, swam the anchor leg of the men’s 4 x 200-meter freestyle relay and brought home his second gold medal of the night.
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Phelps, Ryan Lochte and the U.S. beat Great Britain by about three seconds.
About an hour before, Phelps won gold in the 200-meter butterfly. It was his Olympic-record 20th gold.
