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Michael Phelps opens door _ slightly _ to another comeback

United States' Michael Phelps prepares a swimming training session at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
United States' Michael Phelps prepares a swimming training session at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) United States' Michael Phelps prepares a swimming training session at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Michael Phelps kept saying this would definitely be his final Olympics.

No chance of any more comebacks, right?

Not so fast.

During a news conference Wednesday, Phelps called Rio “my potential last Olympics.”

With that, the media in the packed interview room erupted in gasps and laughter, cutting off Phelps in mid-sentence as he talked about the chance to share the Olympics with his infant son, Boomer.