Phelps, 31, will swim three individual events – the 100m butterfly, the 200m butterfly and the 200m individual medley. The signiature event for hometown hero Hernandez, who turned 16 just months before the Games, is the floor exercise, where her early ballet training and sassy attitude earn her high scores and big cheers.
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Although the US has not won Olympic gold in the women’s 400m free relay since the 2000 Sydney Games, it has won a medal in this event at every Olympics except 1912, the first year they held it.
Sun is one of the most versatile swimmers in the world, a former distance champion at 800 and 1,500 meters who has been moving to shorter distances as he gets older.
The current world record holder in the 400m, 800m and 1500m frees had only been expected to compete in Saturday afternoon’s prelims, but after swimming the team’s fastest split at 52.6 – almost a full second faster than any of her team-mates – the Maryland teenager was tabbed on Saturday evening to compete with Dana Vollmer, Simone Manuel, Abbey Weitzeil in the night’s final event at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.
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So disappointing! Despite Katie Ledecky’s best efforts, the women’s 4×100 swimming team had to settle for second best and silver medals at the Rio Olympics 2016 on August 6. Ledekcy, 19, anchored the women’s 4×100 freestyle relay that won a silver medal. She swam a whopping two seconds faster than the 4:28.43 previous record set by China’s Ye Shiwen at the 2012 Olympics in London.
Since archery was reintroduced into the Olympic Games in 1972, South Korea has won more than half of the available gold medals. Townley Haas of the USA finished in second place for his preliminary heat, which was more than enough to get him into the semifinals.
The 19-year-old Ledecky told NBC after the race she knew the crowd was into her pursuit of the record.
In the lone final in which he failed to set a world record, Phelps beat Cavic by one one-hundredth of a second. After lowering his own world record in the heats he’ll be out to add Olympic gold to his world title.
“I shouldn’t have done that”, she said.
Having swum in both preliminaries and final, Ledecky went to bed 2:45 a.m. and slept until 11 a.m. “It’s exciting, but the main goal was just to get a really good lane for us for the finals, just putting it all out there for the first race”. American Leah Smith posted the third-fastest time in the prelims.
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Guy finished second in his heat, but team-mate Cameron Kurle was 35th overall and missed out. Camille Lacourt, Xu Jiayu and Mitchell Larkin all finished ahead of those two.
