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[IMG][/IMG] It was the duel in the pool the world had been waiting for - but not as impatiently as Michael Phelps.

Inside a near hysterical Rio aquatics stadium the greatest swimmer of them all took on arch-rival Chad Le Clos and exacted the sweetest of revenge to win the 20th gold medal of his extraordinary career.

Then he got out, towelled himself down and returned a few minutes later to win number 21, wearing a team mate’s swimming cap!

Phelps had waited four long years to get his own back on the South African for daring to challenge his mastery - and succeeding in taking his prized 200m butterfly crown at London