The first truly transcendent sports moment of the London Olympics took place around 9 p.m. Tuesday.
That's when Michael Phelps touched the wall to complete Team USA's triumphant 4x200-meter freestyle relay at the Aquatics Centre, giving the "Baltimore Bullet" his record-breaking 19th Olympic medal.
The man who had 239 footnotes on his Wikipedia page shortly after that historic race is now the winningest Olympian of all time, topping gymnast Larisa Latynina's mark of 18. (Latynina collected nine golds, five silvers and four bronze while competing for the Soviet Union in the 1956 Melbourne Games, 1960 Rome Games and '64 Tokyo Olympics.)