He holds the world and Olympic records in the event.
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“Being up there on the mat at the Olympics was priceless”, she said. Katie Ledecky, who reset the world record that she had set in the women’s 400-meter freestyle Monday by nearly two seconds, will be in for a tough fight for gold against fellow multiple world record holder Sweden’s Sarah Sjöström in the women’s 200-meter freestyle at 9:19 p.m.
The United States continued to rack up the medals on Monday.
Medals will be awarded in the women’s and men’s 100 meter backstroke, at 10:30 p.m. and 10:38 p.m., respectively. Canada won in the bronze medal match against Britain. Team USA has gone from 12 to 19 total medals over the past two days. The team beat out its neighbor, New Zealand, in a 24-17 win to take home the inaugural gold medal Monday. Silver went to Serhiy Kulish of Ukraine, bronze to Vladimir Maslennikov of Russian Federation.
Roughly five days into the 2016 Rio Summer Games, the United States has taken an early four-medal lead in the race with top competitor China but the two powers are now tied with three gold medals apiece.
Hungarian-born Szandra Szogedi made history when she stepped onto the judo mat at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Tuesday.
Zhang Chenglong, one of the stars on China’s gymnastics team, was distraught and admitted that winning the team gold was “the most important and precious” goal for the team heading into Rio.
United States’ Michael Phelps after placing third in a heat of the men’s 200-meter butterfly during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. But the US captain and goal kicker missed the conversion from out wide, leaving the margin at five.
Russian swimmers have been loudly booed over evidence of systematic doping, US women’s soccer star Hope Solo has been mocked for voicing public concerns over the zika virus – crowds chant “zika! zika” when she touches the ball – and other top competitors seem to have fallen out of favour for no reason. She had five double-faults in one game alone in the 6-4, 6-3 loss to the 20th-ranked Svitolina. Brazilian police arrested 22-year-old boxer Jonas Junius, who was the flag bearer for the Namibian national team on suspicion of attempting to sexually assault a room maid in the Olympic village, organisers confirmed on Monday.
Phelps qualified fifth in the 200 butterfly heats with a time of 1 minute, 55.73 seconds in his first individual event in Rio.
Shooting, men’s trap: Gold went to Josip Glasnovic of Croatia, winning their first medal of the competition.
ON THE PITCH: Catalina Usme beat USA goalie Hope Solo on a pair of free kicks to draw Colombia to a 2-2 tie with the United States.
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The third day of Olympic competition featured a couple of notable firsts: Rafaela Silva captured host Brazil’s initial gold medal of the Rio Games and fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad became the only American ever to compete in the Olympics wearing a hijab. Earlier in the day, Serbia faces Australia.
