But I’m not doing it.
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“That’s why I came back after ’12”. (But) this is final. “I’m not going four more years”.
“I need to let this moment sink in, realise what I’ve done and then I’ll have a better understanding of what I accomplished”, Scololing said. “I was a little kid with a dream”. “Being able to close the door on this sport the way I wanted to, that’s why I’m happy now”.
Olympic gold in the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay at the weekend and if he feels greedy, there is more potential gold for him in the 100m fly and the 200m individual medley – events he has incredibly won at the past three Olympics. He insists the same will not happen again.
Teenager Katie Ledecky picked up her fourth gold medal of the Rio Games in the 800m freestyle final, smashing her own world record in the process.
“The best team did not win today”, she said. I think with a different objective, he’s going to come back and push his limits.
“I saw a second next to my name and then I looked up again and I looked over at Laszlo and Chad and hey we all tied”. But after he gets a heavy dose of time with his son Boomer and gets the chance to marry and spend time with his fiancée Nicole Johnson, he might find he has another couple years in him. He now finishes his career with 27 overall Olympic medals, with 22 of them gold. The years of training up to 90,000 meters per week – that’s 56 miles and 1,800 laps – and the hours of concentrating on a black line in the sensory deprivation chamber of the pool had worn him down. However you describe Friday night’s penultimate day of Olympic swimming in Rio, it wouldn’t do it justice.
Everyone could see, after Thursday’s dominant near-two second win in the 200m IM, that it’s getting harder for Phelps to get out of the water afterward – even if, as he said, “It’s just as sweet standing on the top of the podium listening to your national anthem play”. I couldn’t really smile.
This was Phelps at an early Friday morning news conference after the 200m IM: “I just had to trust Bob”.
“It’s pretty insane what happens in eight years”. And U.S. sprinters Anthony Ervin and Nathan Adrian won gold and bronze, respectively, in the 50m freestyle. Schooling said it was the most nervous he had been all night.
“He’s been through it all, and just being beside him, walking beside him and celebrating, I’ll really cherish that for the rest of my life”. He avenged his 200-meter butterfly defeat against South Africa’s Chad Le Clos with a closing 50 meters that left everyone else merely splashing about. “I’m sorry if I don’t seem like I’m full of emotions right now”. “He and I have been through a lot of IMs together and a lot of 200 flys”.
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“(But) I’ll be back from that.
