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[00:00.00]This is What's Trending Today.
[00:04.17]On August 16, 1954,
[00:09.82]Sports Illustrated published its first-ever magazine.
[00:16.22]The new publication led with an article called the "The Golden Age is Now."
[00:25.23]Sixty-two years later,
[00:28.23]Sports Illustrated is one of the most famous sports publications in the world.
[00:36.49]And, now it has published perhaps its most golden magazine cover yet.
[00:44.38]The cover photo of the August 22 edition of the magazine
[00:51.25]features U.S. Olympic gold medal swimmers Katie Ledecky
[00:57.70]and Michael Phelps, along with gold-medal gymnast Simone Biles.
[01:04.94]The cover reads: "The Greatests."
[01:08.41]Together, the three athletes won 16 Olympic medals in Rio de Janeiro.
[01:18.52]Thirteen of them are gold.
[01:21.65]Shortly after the magazine released its "Greatests" cover this week,
[01:28.50]it became a trending topic on social media.
[01:33.49]Phelps is the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals.
[01:43.02]The 31-year-old won six medals in Rio, five of them gold.
[01:51.43]Nineteen-year-old Ledecky won four gold medals and a silver medal in Rio.
[01:59.90]And first-time Olympian Biles, also 19, won four golds and one bronze medal.
[02:10.50]She tied the record for most gold medals won in one Olympics by a woman gymnast.
[02:20.77]Phelps wrote on his Facebook page
[02:24.53]that it was an "honor" to share the cover with Ledecky and Biles.
[02:31.66]Sports Illustrated wrote that the photoshoot took place Sunday evening in Rio.
[02:39.94]Biles had just won her third of four gold medals of the Games.
[02:47.15]People on social media called the three athletes "heroes" and "superstars."
[02:54.83]And that's What's Trending Today.