Phelps added another gold medal to his collection.
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Melissa Gonzalez of the United States celebrates scoring a goal during the women’s pool B match between the United States and Japan on Day 5 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Hockey Centre on August 10, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Though she posted the third best time overall in the qualifying rounds, Douglas was edged out because of the rule that only allows two individuals per team to advance to the all-round finals. Ledecky’s time was almost seven seconds faster than anyone else. She’s looking to complete a sweep of the 200, 400 and 800 freestyles for the first time since the 1968 Mexico City Games.
DiRado beat out another star of these games – Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu – at the wall after taking the lead in the closing lengths.
He became the first swimmer to win the same event at four consecutive Olympics with the win, clocking in 1 minute 54.66 seconds for 200m individual medley on Thursday, nearly two seconds ahead of Japan’s Kosuke Hagino.
Hilary Caldwell of Canada had the second quickest time of 2:07.40. As of this report, Ledecky has captured four total medals in Rio, with three gold and one silver.
The 800 freestyle was won by Katie Ledecky, who handily broke the world record in the event. Her gold medals came from the 200m and 400m freestyles, as well as the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay.
Andriy Hovorov of Ukraine was the fastest qualifier in the men’s 50 free at 21.72.
Track and field starts Friday and includes preliminaries for the women in the 100 meter.
Five sprinters at Rio have joined the small list of women to crack the 10.8-second mark: Elaine Thompson of Jamaica, Murielle Ahoure of the Ivory Coast and American teammates English Gardner, Tianna Bartoletta and Tori Bowie. But defending Olympic champion Sarah Menezes narrowly lost out on a bronze on Saturday in the 48kg category, and so did Erika Miranda at 52kg on Sunday.
In all, Phelps has won four gold medals at these Games, two in relays as well as the 200-meter butterfly and 200-meter individual medley.
It’s the first medal of the Rio Games for the Romanians, who outscored China 44-38. Three more medals have been won for the United States delegation and also Fiji won their first Olympic medal in history.
He’s a father now, to 3-month-old Boomer.
Led by superstar Michael Phelps, the U.S. swimmers contributed three out of the five gold medals pocketed by the US.
Round one for the men’s event tees off Thursday at 6:30 a.m. ET.
The dominating United States teams are back on the court.
HOW TO SEE IT: See Bam, Gonzalez and US women’s field hockey team face off against Great Britain live online at 5 p.m. ET, or on CNBC. That athlete is Kim Rhode, who is competing in the women’s skeet final and could set a record as the first US athlete to win a medal at six consecutive Olympic games.
Usain Bolt, no slouch himself on the track, says it’s going to be hard to pick a favorite in the women’s 100 meters at the Rio Olympics. Sweden, ranked sixth, struggled in the group stage with a 5-1 loss to host Brazil and finished 1-1-1. In other action, China’s men face Australia.
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Silva, who grew up in the country’s largest slum and became the country’s first female world champion in judo in 2013, won the 57-kilogram division of the Japanese martial art on Monday as the crowd chanted “Rafa” and waved the green and yellow Brazilian flags.
