![]() For some, it adds too much physical stress - eating into training and sleep cycles and inhibiting rest days. While it's considered a huge honor to be chosen as flag-bearer, a substantial number of athletes decline to do it. ![]() "Had he been swimming the 400 IM, which is the first event of the first day, he probably would not have done it, because just takes a little bit out of you," Bob Bowman, Phelps' longtime coach, said to ESPN. But this time, his racing schedule was different. ![]() The stress of the opening ceremony would have been too much. In any other year, Phelps would have turned it down. When Michael Phelps was asked to be Team USA's flag-bearer at the Rio Olympics, he knew one thing: It was the first time in his Olympic career he could say yes.
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