Soccer, basketball, gymnastics, indoor volleyball, tennis, swimming, water polo, wrestling, track, and rowing. Now 37, Rhode could one day challenge his record – at the 2052 Olympic Games! Events can be live-streamed on NBC’s website.
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After routing Senegal and setting Olympic records in points, margin of victory and assists, the USA women’s team next faces Spain at 12 p.m.
Gabby DouglasThe US gymnast will be returning to the Olympics at Rio after winning the gold medal as individual all-around champion in 2012, at the age of just 16.
Yi took a similar path as Thrasher’s, earning air rifle gold at the 2012 London Games just three years after starting her worldwide shooting career.
Canada’s team of 314 athletes, 186 women and 128 men, is gunning for a top-12 finish in the medal standings in Rio. Players filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in March.
The 19-year-old capped a strong year.
Even though the U.S.is tied for the most medals total, Australia and Hungary are ahead of the Americans, Japanese and Chinese in the gold medal count with two gold medals.
In Rio, medal events start on Saturday morning with the men’s cycling road race rolling off the line at 9:30 a.m. In the last Olympics four years ago at London, the United States finished with 46 gold medals and 103 in total. The U.S. has won six of seven gold medals since 1984 – about the time the true impact of the law started being felt.
But it’s Simone Biles everybody’s talking about.
If all goes according to plan, this will mean that Spain ends up with one more medal than it did in London, although the number of gold medals will be the same.
If you’re keen on watching the games unfold on TV in India, then head to Star Sports Network who are the official broadcasters of the mega event.
She became the only freshman ever to sweep both NCAA individual air rifle titles, earning a spot in Rio in less than a month.
The world turns its attention to Rio de Janeiro tonight for opening ceremonies of the Olympic Summer Games where Team USA is ready to take on the world.
Already the second-most populated metropolitan area in Brazil, thousands will travel from all over the world within the next three weeks to visit Rio de Janeiro, but there’s more to see than the 2016 Olympic Games.
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Gracenote predicts that Phelps will win four more gold medals – in the 100 fly, 200 IM, 4×100 medley and 4×200 freestyle – and one bronze in the 200 fly.
