Michael Phelps is well on his way to making Olympic gold metal history. Phelps just sailed to victory in the 200-meter individual medley more than two seconds ahead of the next guy.

Phelps finished the individual medley in a record 1 minute, 54.23 seconds. He beat his own record of 1:54.80 set at last month's U.S. trials, his sixth world record in China.

Michael Phelps has already proven that he is basically the perfect swimmer.

Friday night, Phelps will go for gold #7 to tie Mark Spitz record.