The 24-year-old stunned Phelps, who won gold in the 4x100m freestyle in Rio on Sunday to take his Olympic medal tally to 23, by claiming 200m butterfly gold in the London Games four years ago.
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The women’s champions have been crowned – Australia beat New Zealand in Monday’s historic first sevens final – now it’s time for the men’s competition.
The US women are also on a winning streak.
19-year-old Lilly King took the gold medal in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1:04.93, another new Olympic record.
“‘I want to marry the hell out of Ryan Held, ‘ – me, my mom, and every single person in the United States”, another wrote.
The U.S. team of Douglas, Raisman, Jordyn Wieber, Kyla Ross and McKayla Maroney also beat Russian Federation in 2012 to win gold in London.
Diving, women’s synchronized 10 meters platform: Another gold for the Chinese in this event, with the duo of Chen Ruolin (fifth Olympic gold) and Liu Huixia winning with a score of 354.00.
And Madison Kocian will compete on bars, where she is a world champion. This means that Yahoo will get to live stream a number of Olympic events, along with showing video highlights. China had three golds (two in weightlifting) while France won their first gold medals of the Rio Olympics. Michael Phelps, who gave the team the lead swimming a fast second leg, earned his 19th gold medal as the most decorated athlete in Olympic history.
Caeleb Dressel, Michael Phelps, Ryan Held and Nathan Adrian, Men’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay – For all his success, Michael Phelps regretted coming second in the freestyle relay to France at the London Olympics in 2012. The final race will be held Tuesday night.
Swimming, Women’s 200 meters freestyle: Katie Ledecky won her second gold in Rio and third overall with a time of 1:53.73, beating Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom by 0.35 seconds, and bronze went to Emme McKeon of Australia, who has a gold from a relay earlier.
Swimmer Ryan Murphy of the United States celebrates winning gold in the men’s 100-meter backstroke final on August 8 at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
However, the United States has a chance to make up ground in the women’s gymnastics team competition. Consider this: The margin between the US and the Chinese in qualifiers was greater than the margin between China and 12th-place Belgium.
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Dutch gymnast Yuri van Gelder has been kicked off the Netherlands’ team at the Olympics and is being sent home from Rio for breaching team rules.
