The man of the moment, however, was Fraser who only found his way onto the Australian team when world number one Jason Day, 2013 Masters champion Adam Scott, Marc Leishman and Matt Jones all declined Olympic selection.
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Australia’s Kyle Chalmers, right, celebrates winning a heat of the men’s 100-meter freestyle ahead of second placed United States’ Caeleb Dressel during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 201.
At the other end of Olympic Park, the US women’s gymnastics team captured a second straight gold with a high-flying and dominating performance.
Brazil’s national security force officers move inside the Vila do Joao, part of the Mare complex of slums during a police operation in search for criminals during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. He’s won 25 Olympic medals, 21 of them gold, which is more than any Olympian in the history of the Olympics. It may be Phelps’s best event, but he mistimed his finish in London and that allowed le Clos to beat him at the line. So far in Rio the country has won 13 medals, five of them gold.
One fan pointed out: “If Michael Phelps gives every member of the U.S. basketball team a gold medal, he can still wear six around his neck and use two for coasters”. “I always like to take the leader out of it in my mind because you never know if they are going to continue and I’m right there with the rest of them”.
Golf formally returned to the Olympics on Thursday, on a course that saw its construction threatened by lawsuits aimed at protecting the nature preserve on which it was built.
With a dazzling 15.8 on the high bar, Kohei Uchimura, the superstar gymnast from Japan, won the men’s all-around title on Wednesday night, edging Oleg Verniaiev of Ukraine by less than a tenth of the point to capture his second straight Olympic gold.
For American Katie Ledecky, it was her third gold medal of the Rio Olympics. She entered the night with a 4-0 record against Svitolina, but now the 2012 London gold medalist in singles and doubles is finished in Rio.
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“The Olympics is a big one, ” da Silva said. Germany’s Paul Biedermann holds the world record and is competing in Rio. Two-time defending Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of the United States is also in the field.
We are almost halfway through the Olympics and we have seen victories and upsets.
A Brazilian police officer has died after being shot in the head when he and two others working security at the Rio Olympics got lost near a slum and encountered gunfire.
Instead, so much of the conversation has been the top players sitting out golf’s return to the Olympics. Their truck was sprayed with bullets, and officer Helio Vieira was shot.
In a statement Friday, FINA said the Olympic competition in Rio was not affected by the wrong times. The other officers sustained minor injuries.
Later, at 11:55 p.m. the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay final is held.
The Olympic diving pool was temporarily closed for training Friday morning as officials attempted to change its color from green to blue.
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Chen has applied to the International Olympic Committee to have her B sample tested and to get a hearing on the matter, Xinhua said, citing the swimming association, which promised in a statement to “take this matter seriously”.
