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Relationships can develop a push-pull quality when partners are in the throes of an Olympic bromance AND fiercely competitive at the same time.
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The convenient part about being Olympic swimming bros is always having someone around to be straight with you.
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Or just do the things you love to do with you. Like the backstroke.
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Or comfort you when you look down.
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But at the end of a match, Phelpte knows knows the other is just a plastic floating rope away.
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Even this distance can be hard, however, when things get particularly stressful.
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With no rope between them, will the competition rip them apart?
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Or will they get out of the pool and be best friends again?
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Tension arises when Phelpte's attention goes heavily to just one party.
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Ultimately, love brings them together in the end.
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Until Tyler Clary steals Ryan away.
