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10 Reasons The USA Olympic Men's Swim Team Is Bae

They're basically perfect, and play with puppies.

Emma Bond
Aug 15, 2016
George Washington University
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10 Reasons The USA Olympic Men's Swim Team Is Bae
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With the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in full swing, everyone has their eyes glued to their TV's waiting to see who takes home gold, and who goes home empty handed. But what they should really be paying attention to is the USA Men's Olympic swim team...

1. They're just like us, with big childhood dreams. Except their dreams are realities...but that doesn't matter right now.

Rookie Ryan Murphy wrote a book to his mom when he was a little kid, telling her how he wanted to be the "best swimmer in the world" and an "Olympian." Just a few years later he grabbed his first Olympic gold in Rio.

2. Michael Phelps is a humble king. On Friday night Phelps took home his third Olympic silver medal after losing to Joseph Schooling, a 21-year-old swimmer from Singapore. After the race finished, Phelps swam over to Schooling, congratulating him on his first Olympic gold. Just eight years earlier, Schooling met Phelps briefly in Singapore when he was there training.

3. They have moments that remind us all that they are simply human, super talented humans, but humans nonetheless. 21-year-old Ryan Held took home his first Olympic medal after the Men won the 4x100m freestyle relay race. After receiving his gold medal with teammates Michael Phelps, Nathan Adrian and Caeleb Dressel, Held broke down crying and needed to be comforted by his fellow swimmers.

4. Nathan Adrian's smile and face and body and everything. I mean, come on. He's 6'7 feet of pure hunky happiness.

5. Conor Dywer.

6. Cody Miller's reaction to winning his first Olympic medal. He. Is. The. Happiest. Human. On. Earth. And its truly great.

7.They're just regular guys, and friends. Who eat in ice baths together. Totally normal right? Sure, sure, Phelps and Lochte.

8. They also play with puppies. PUPPIES AND OLYMPIANS. Enough said.

9. The guys also know how to let loose after a hard day of getting ready for the Olympics...by rocking out to carpool karaoke and absolutely killing it.

10. They love their families, and their families love supporting them. Ugh talented, cute and family oriented. Where can I get one?

They're talented, humble, family oriented and absolutely smoking hot. How could you not become the Olympic men's swim team biggest fan?

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