Sunday night it produced a world record for Ledecky and showcased Phelps nearly singlehandedly putting the US men at the top of the podium in the 4×100 freestyle relay with a scintillating second leg that clocked in at 47.12.
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She’s racing in three more events, and she’s the favorite in all three.
“That was the closest I’ve gotten to needing to throw up during a race”, she said. “I’m just so glad I got my hand on the wall first and it was all worth it”. Ledecky led at every turn of the race, but had to hold off a charging Sjostrom on the last leg. Sjostrom was in an outside lane out of Ledecky’s view, and finished.25 seconds out of gold.
Katie Ledecky tried for her third medal of the Rio Olympics Tuesday. IU junior Blake Pieroni won a gold medal on the 4 x 100 freestyle relay team.
This time, it was Phelps out front – barely – while Le Clos could only manage a fourth-place showing.
Phelps posted a time of 1 minute 53.36 seconds, which was enough to hold off Masato Sakai of Japan, whose 1:53.40 was 0.04 seconds behind Phelps.
But here’s why Tuesday’s races were very special for both of them.
Four years ago, Phelps mistimed his finish in the swooping stroke he does better than anyone, gliding to the wall a little too long after his final stroke.
At the other end of Olympic Park, the US women’s gymnastics team captured a second straight gold with a high-flying and dominating performance.
Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden earned the silver, a quarter of a second behind Ledecky.
– The American men’s basketball team has followed Saturday’s 57-point win over China with a 113-69 rout of Venezuela.
He wasn’t taking any chances in the semifinals. Her time of 1:53.73 was the best in the world this year and a personal best.
For Ledecky, this is already her third event of the games.
Franklin conceded that her confidence level is “really different” than it was before the London Games.
“It’s an unreal feeling for me”. The women’s team will face Australia in a quarterfinal match on Friday.
As the subject of a lengthy New York Times profile, the swim champ reveals an innocent appreciation for the sport ― and her many, many wins.
The International Weightlifting Federation declined to comment on the reasons for Lin’s withdrawal but a source close to the situation said the Taiwanese lifter failed a dope test. As her world records and global crowns in the distance events attest, no one in history has possessed her endurance and ability to maintain such a high rate of speed in a multi-lap discipline.
Lin, 28, is the third lifter to test positive in the past five days following Antonis Martasidis of Cyprus (85kg) and Tomasz Zielinski of Poland (94kg) who were sent home. – Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky are two of the names to know in this year’s summer Olympic games in Rio.
Khalmurzaev had praise for Stevens and how he pushed him to victory. The 400 gold was her second overall.
MEDAL STRIPPED: A Ukrainian javelin thrower was stripped of his silver medal from the 2012 London Olympics, becoming the latest athlete disqualified after the retesting of stored doping samples. She has one more to go, the 800 meters, where she is virtually unchallenged.
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At Maria Lenk Aquatics Center, there was more buzz over the color of the water than the diving competition.
