Michael Phelps Says He Could Still Win In Olympics Today But One Thing Is Stopping Him

Michael Phelps says he still has it in him. 

The all-time Olympic medal holder appeared on The Pat McAfee Show earlier today to preview the upcoming Paris Summer Olympics and was asked if he could still swim at a competitive level.

"If you wanted to get into an Olympic race, or let's say there was a celebrity race… what race would be the race that you think you could get back into and be the best at?" McAfee asked the 23x Gold Medalist.

"It's funny you asked that because, watching the [recent] Olympic Trials, my son asked if I could get in the water & compete… I told him if I wanted to I could, and I think I could still win," Phelps responded.

However, before you start thinking that you're going to be with your friends at a bar rooting on Phelps during a future Olympic swim meet, Phelps says he wouldn't because his family wouldn't want him to. "I told [my son] that if I swam again that means that you wouldn't see daddy very often. You wouldn't be able to spend time with me when you come home from school, and he said, ‘I don’t want that,' and I said ‘I don’t want that either' so that was the end of that conversation for me."

But if Michael Phelps did somehow end up back in that Olympic swimming pool?

"I think I could win the 200IM. I was going faster 8 years ago than most of the world is going now, so I still think that if I focused on one event that I'd be able to get the job done." Phelps has won a total of 8 Gold Medals in both the 200m and 400m IM - which consists of a medley of a butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.

PHELPS STILL HOLDS THE OLYMPIC RECORD FOR THE 400M INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY

During my interview last week with Olympic gold medalist swimmer and NBC sportscaster Rowdy Gaines, the former Team USA swimmer said without a doubt that Michael Phelps is the greatest athlete in the world.

One thing's for certain - in Michael Phelps' heart he still believes he is and that competitiveness still hasn't left the now 39-year-old swimmer. The beauty about the Olympics is that when it comes down to it - numbers don't lie and still all these years later, Phelps is still No. 1.