“To win my fourth 200 IM in a row, I don’t even know how to put that into words”, said Phelps, who about 45 minutes after winning the event dove back into the Olympic pool and qualified for the 100 butterfly final that will be held Friday night.
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Elliotte Friedman of the Canadian Broadcasting Company got the lanes mixed up and called the race as if Lochte – not Phelps – was leading.
400m individual medley victor Japan’s Kosuke Hagino was second in 1:56.61 with China’s Wang Shun taking bronze.
That’s not unusual. Lochte is one of the few swimmers who can crack Phelps’ steely prerace focus.
The medal extends Phelps’ Olympic record to 26 career medals, including 22 golds.
Simone Manuel won a gold medal in the women’s 100 freestyle final Thursday night, surprising even herself.
Phelps was just 0.43 behind the Olympic record he set en route to gold in Beijing eight years ago.
Her jaw dropped as she looked up to the scoreboard and saw a tie for gold and an Olympic-record time of 52.70 seconds.
USA swimmer Michael Phelps captured his 22nd Olympic gold medal on Thursday.
“We bring out the best in each other”, he said.
According to NBC Olympics, the two own 93 Olympic and world championship medals between them and they have combined for the last five world record progressions and all of the reported top 10 all-time performances.
Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympian of all time with 18 gold medals, two silvers and two bronzes. As a kid I wanted to do something that no one had ever done before and I’m enjoying it.
Australian Larkin, who failed to medal in the 100m, took silver and Russian Federation s Evgeny Rylov the bronze.
Japan’s Rie Kaneto celebrates on the podium after winning the gold medal in the women’s 200-meter breaststroke final during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He’ll also have the chance to do that later during the Rio games in the 100-meter butterfly.
“Coming into this race I tried to take the weight of the black community off my shoulders”, she said. Shi Jinglin claimed bronze for China.
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Led by Phelps, it was quite a night for the powerful American team, which also picked up more gold when Ryan Murphy completed a sweep of the men’s backstroke events in the 200.
