“I had a lot of fun tonight”, she said afterwards, according to a transcript from the Olympic News Service. She won five medals and became the third American swimmer, after Amy Van Dyken and Missy Franklin, to win four golds.
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Meyer has been rooting hard for Ledecky all week, and she’s traded texts with Ledecky’s mother, Mary Gen, throughout the meet.
BRONZE BOXER: Nico Hernandez’s chance for a gold medal ended Friday when he lost to Uzbekistan’s Hasanboy Dusmatov.
It wasn’t long before someone asked her about the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. He rallied but did not have enough in his legs to catch 21-year-old Joseph Schooling of Singapore, who won in an Olympic-record time of 50.39 seconds.
Johnston posted the sixth-best score in the preliminaries of 3-meter springboard Friday, sending her to the semifinals.
Boxer Nico Hernandez ended a medal drought for United States, taking home a bronze along with Cuba’s Joahnys Argilagos.
Ledecky’s world records in the 400-, 800-, and 1,500-meter distances are incredibly impressive on their own. Anthony Ervin became the oldest Olympic swimming champion with gold in the men’s 50-meter freestyle and Maya Dirado earned her first gold of the Rio Games in the women’s 200-meter breaststroke. “The Olympics is the pinnacle of our sport and I have to wait four more years to have that moment again so I wanted the last one to be special”.
Here are the highlights from the night in the pool.
“I think it’s the first time in my life I’ve ever seen true emotion come out”, Phelps said.
With four gold medals at these games and 22 for his career, Phelps has an opportunity to pick up one more before he leaves Rio.
Phelps quickly swam over to congratulate Schooling, who seemed stunned by what he had done.
She shattered it again in Rio, blowing by the 8:06.68 that she set in January 2016.
Ervin, the oldest USA man to swim an individual event in the Olympics since 1904, won the 100 in 21.40 seconds.
It continued for five, 10, 15 seconds as the youngest woman on the US swim team stepped toward the starting blocks.
Carlin won the fifth Welsh silver of the 2016 Games in the pool just hours after cyclist Owain Doull won Wales’ first gold in Rio in the team pursuit. If you like watching the best swimmer in the world scrap for victory in her most challenging event, she did that in the 200 freestyle.
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‘Two silver medals, it is an incredible feeling.
