Joseph Schooling of Singapore celebrates winning the gold medal in the Men’s 100m Butterfly Final on Day 7 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium on August 12, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Singapore’s Schooling built a big lead on the opening lap and easily held off the hard-charging Phelps to win gold in the 100-meter butterfly. Instead he snatched the silver in the 100m butterfly event, coming in just behind Singapore’s Joseph Schooling.
Schooling will receive $A984,000 for his gold medal as part of a program aimed at encouraging studious Singaporeans to excel in sport.
Joseph Schooling clocked 50.83 seconds, while South Africa’s Chad Le Clos had the second fast time of 51.43 on Thursday. With this, the Singaporean denied Phelps his 23rd Olympic gold.
“I’m ready to retire and I’m happy about it”, said Phelps, looking forward to marrying girlfriend Nicole Johnson later this year and spending more time with his baby son Boomer, who was in Rio to watch his dad race. “Right now I don’t know how to wrap my head around that”.
He takes the pool for the 100m fly heats on Friday morning, and will be hoping to win a historic medal in the final on Saturday morning. “With an atmosphere like this and Michael (Phelps) and all beside me, I think I’ll be a lot faster”.
Phelps, who took his tally to four gold medals at Rio by winning the event for the fourth consecutive Games in succession, moved ahead of Leonidas after edging out Japan’s Kosuke Hagino and China’s Wang Shun.
Ledecky and Debbie Meyers are now the only female swimmers to sweep the three longest freestyle races. Just so you guys don’t beat me to death if I come back.
Team USA star Murphy, who won the 100-meter backstroke in Olympic record time, edged out Australia’s Mitch Larkin and Russia’s Evgeny Rylov.
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Ervin returned to make the American team in 2012, but failed to win a medal in London. “I figured that was the best thing to do – just end my life”. Now, improbably, he’s back on the top of the podium again.
