Mark Spitz, make room for one more.
The swimming legend who held the record for most gold medals in a single Olympics for 36 years now has company after fellow American Michael Phelps captured the men's 100-metre butterfly by the narrowest of margins on Saturday in Beijing.
Charging from behind over the final metres, Phelps extended his six-foot-four frame to trip the timer just 1-100th of a second ahead of Serbia's Milorad Cavic.
The thrilling victory gave Phelps, 23, his seventh title of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, matching the storied standard set by Spitz in 1972 in Munich.
Phelps now has 13 career Olympic golds as he continues to put space between himself and the old record of nine set by Spitz and three others.
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