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Admit it: If you were the owner of 22 gold medals, there’s probably a good chance you’d try to put them on all at once and walk around like you’re the king or queen of the world.

We have no idea if Michael Phelps will try this once he gets back home to Baltimore, but if he says he hasn’t at least considered the idea, we’re going to go ahead and call him a liar

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Here’s the thing, though: Donning all that gold could be both a figurative and literal pain in the neck. The Wall Street Journal did all the math on the gold medals that Phelps has won through Thursday’s 200 IM and found that they weigh a combined 13.56 pounds, the equivalent of a good-sized bowling ball. Put another way, it’d be like wearing his young son Boomer around his neck.

The Wall Street Journal talked to some doctors in New York and found that a mere mortal would experience pinched nerves, neck pain, numbness and even a herniated disc if they attempted such a stunt. (So much for our dreams!)

“We have a lot of people who don’t even have any weight who are constantly bending their necks down to look at their phones, and they get strains in their muscles from no weight at all,” an orthopedic surgeon told the paper.

As for Phelps, doctors believe his freakish upper body strength would allow him to wear all 22 gold medals for at least a little time without injury. They believe he’d be at risk, though, if he attempted to wear them all to a press conference, a sponsor event or even a fancy cocktail party.

Phelps could still win two more golds before these Rio Games are over and the Brazilian organizers aren’t doing him any favors. The current gold medals weigh 1.1 pounds apiece, the heaviest of any of the four Games where Phelps has won.

Two more and Phelps might need a pair of oxen and a yoke to carry his haul around.

Breakdown of Phelps gold medals

2004 Athens: 6 x 0.33 = 1.98 lbs

2008 Beijing 8 x 0.44 = 3.52 lbs

2012 London 4 x 0.91 = 3.64 lbs

2016 Rio 4 x 1.1 = 4.4 lbs

TOTAL: 13.56 lbs (and counting)

Source: Wall Street Journal