She had won nine medals, including five golds, in world championship competition but had yet to break through at the Olympics. DiRado finished in 2:08.79.
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There were loud jeers before the start of the race for Efimova, who has twice been suspended for doping offenses.
RATINGS: NBC averaged 20.7 million viewers Saturday for its first night of Olympic prime-time competition. There’s 19-year-old Katie Ledecky who blew everyone’s mind Sunday night when she shattered the 400-meter freestyle world record; Uzebekistan’s 41-year-old gymnast Oksana Chusovitina schooling competitors 25 years her junior; Serena Williams bringing her signature slaying abilities to the tennis court; 19-year-old USA gymnastics star Simone Biles exceeding her mythic hype. “The anti-doping system in Russian Federation is broken, corrupted and entirely compromised”.
Russian Federation was banned on Sunday from the Paralympics that will follow. “She has such a wide range of events that she’s been continually improving on the last couple of years”.
“If I’m not mistaken, the (U.S.) girls have medaled in every event so far, and I didn’t want to end that streak on my event so I’m glad that we could continue that”, DiRado told media – correctly – after her swim.
Olivia Smoliga, a US rookie alongside Baker, qualified for the final in eighth place. Hosszu – nicknamed “The Iron Lady” in Hungary – swam the race in 4 minutes, 26.36 seconds, smashing the previous world record by a solid two seconds.
Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu filled a glaring gap in her resume Saturday, making her first Olympic medal a gold – with a stunning world record to boot.
Hicks made reference to Tusup as NBC’s cameras caught video of him shouting and cheering from the stands after Hosszu’s win.
Baker, who qualified fastest for the final, clocked 58.75, to finish 0.01 seconds ahead of Masse and Fu.
Katinka Hosszu won the 100m backstroke at the Rio Olympics on Monday to add to her world-record victory in the 400 individual medley.
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Seebohm, silver medallist in London in 2012, had achieved the second-fastest time in the heats but qualified for the final in seventh. “The night ended with Tusup kissing Hosszu on the forehead and pulling her close in a long embrace on the deck”.
