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Silly silly Europeans. You would have thought that after the Olympics last year when France's Alain Bernard stuck his foot in his mouth that that would've been a lesson to the rest of the world. Do not, under any circumstances trash talk before a race against Team USA.

The big story at this past weeks World Swimming Championships in Rome was the much awaited rematch in the 100m Butterfly between Michael Phelps and Milorad Cavic. For those that don't recall, Phelps beat Cavic last year in Beijing by the smallest possible margin of .01 seconds to take gold in the 100 fly. Cavic to this day still thinks he won, depsite the timing systems and high def photos saying otherwise. But enough about that, back to the story at hand.

Cavic was still so distraught about losing last year that he started trash talking about this years race a few days prior to the showdown. He taunted Phelps saying that Phelps could race in whichever swimsuit he wanted, but would be naive in sticking with his Speedo LZR. Cavic even offered to buy Phelps one of the new suits (which are still questionable about legality) to race in, to make it a fair race. Phelps wanted nothing to do with Cavic, and was wise in doing so. He lets his swimming do the talking, and I love it. So what happened this year?

Phelps in his 'slower' and 'inferior' swim suit beat Cavic again, for the second time, again, for the second year in a row.....again. Leading up to the race I was hoping Phelps was going to have an extra Speedo LZR suit in his gear bin, and would've handed it to Cavic after the race as if to say "its not about the suit, I'm just better", but he didn't.......although that would've been awesome. Instead he hopped up on Cavic's lane line after the race and proudly showed off his team USA Speedo. They briefly shook hands and Cavic tried to say something, but Phelps wanted nothing of it (as you can see in the video below) and enjoyed the moment of another world record broken, and another pesky euro squashed. HOW'S THAT SLICE OF HUMBLE PIE TASTE CAVIC?!?!? Check out the awesomeness below: