Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: (CNN) The journey started eight years ago with a Singaporean schoolboy posing for a photo with the greatest swimmer of all time. It ended in Rio de Janeiro as he won his nation's first ever Olympic gold medal. They say not to meet your heroes; Joseph Schooling beat his. Now 22 and training for the Aquatic World Championships — currently taking place in Budapest — Schooling remembers meeting Michael Phelps for the first time as if was yesterday. "My dad hosted the US Olympic team at a country club in Singapore," he tells CNN. "I was doing a Chinese composition paper and my mum said 'Joe! Michael's there, Michael's there! Get up!'Joseph Schooling recalls meeting childhood idol, Michael PhelpsSwimmer became Singapore's first ever Olympic gold medalist in RioHe's now targeting 100m butterfly world record in Budapest 
 Question:After a unique three-way tie for second, all three paid homage to a new champion: the 21-year-old from _.

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