Michael Phelps won two silver medals at the 2012 London Olympics. They came in the men’s 200-meter butterfly and the 4×100-meter freestyle relay, leaving him with four golds and two silvers at those Games.
The 200-meter butterfly silver was particularly close: Phelps finished behind South Africa’s Chad le Clos by five-hundredths of a second. He then joined Ryan Lochte, Cullen Jones, and Nathan Adrian in the American 4×100-meter freestyle relay, which finished second to France.
Phelps’s London campaign produced six medals overall and helped him pass Larisa Latynina as the most decorated Olympian in history. His four gold medals came in the 100-meter butterfly, 200-meter individual medley, 4×200-meter freestyle relay, and 4×100-meter medley relay. A common mix-up is confusing his two London silvers with his 2008 haul, when he won eight gold medals.