“Any chance I can get to race Michael, it’s the best”, Lochte said. I don’t have a cap.
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“That’s why he brings out the best in me and hopefully I do the exact same for him”.
In the women’s all-around, Simone Biles is the favorite to win gold and Aly Raisman will be a medal contender.
It was Leah Smiths’ first gold medal of the games, and her second as she won a bronze in the 400-meter freestyle.
Phelps’s celebration after the 200m butterfly was loaded with meaning.
Le Clos was in the lane next to Phelps on Tuesday night, one of five swimmers in the race who had at one time or another claimed Phelps as their childhood hero.
CBS Baltimore affiliate WJZ on Wednesday dusted off a 15-year-old video from the archives showing Phelps, a Maryland native, talking about his hopes for gold in the coming years.
Michael Phelps, left, celebrates winning a semifinal of the men’s 200-meter individual medley ahead of second placed Ryan Lochte.
Third-ranked Aron Szilagyi of Hungary beat upstart American fencer Daryl Homer to win gold in men’s sabre.
“It’s kind of been a insane last couple days”. In the women’s individual time trials, defending champion Kristin Armstrong of Team USA took the gold. Roommates this week at the Olympic Village, Phelps and Lochte won’t discuss their impending showdown during the day, but each man appreciates what they’ve been through together. On Thursday, before they race, they’ll be “goofing off, playing card games, just a normal life”, Lochte said.
Phelps qualified for his first Olympics as a 15-year-old at the 2000 Sydney Olympics in the 200m fly.
Yosuhiro Koseki of Japan went out fast and was more than a second under world-record pace at the final turn.
Phelps has by far the most of any Olympic athlete and is the only one to win eight golds at a single Games, an achievement that earned much fanfare plus a $1 million bonus in Beijing in 2008. They’re heroes of mine, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to front up.
“I really wanted that one bad”. He took the lead at the halfway mark and had le Clos covered from the start.
“That last 10 metres were not fun”. Phelps won each time and Lochte finished second, third and second. “Toughest competitor, racer I’ve ever had to go up against”. “Having that come to an end, it’s weird, it’s insane to think about”.
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“There wasn’t a shot in hell I was losing that race and if I did I was leaving everything in the pool”. Then, during the customary stroll around the pool to pose for photographers, Phelps broke ranks and bounded into the stands to plant a kiss on Boomer, the son who symbolizes just how much Phelps’ life has changed since a second drunken-driving arrest two years ago.
