She is the first woman since 1968 to sweep the 200-, 400- and 800-meter freestyle events in a single Olympics.
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Ledecky followed through, winning in 8 minutes, 4.79 second to take her fourth gold medal and fifth medal overall of these Olympics. The second place finisher trailed by about 11 seconds.
Ledecky’s name will go down in history next to Debbie Meyer’s as the only female swimmers ever to win three individual freestyle events at one Games.
The basketball team struggled before knocking off Serbia 94-91.
And two other Americans won gold, too. And a big scare for the USA men’s basketball team. “It’s about setting goals and going after them”.
‘I have working a lot with a sports psychologist and just try to formulate a race plan and be confident. Gold in the 800.
Said Sweden coach Pia Sundhage: “It’s OK to be a coward if you win”.
United States’ Carli Lloyd lies on the ground during a quarter-final match of the women’s Olympic football tournament between the United States and Sweden in Brasilia Friday Aug. 12, 2016.
Nonetheless, the 100 butterfly set up as one of his most hard events of the week.
It was the pinnacle of Ledecky’s swimming career – higher than the 2012 gold medal in London at the age of 15, higher than the gold medal hauls at the 2013 and 2015 world championships – which means it also may have been the pinnacle of any woman’s athletic career in history because none has been more dominant than her. And yet, the 2000 gold medalist in the 50 freestyle – now 35 – capped an unbelievable comeback story Friday night by winning the same event 16 years later. American Nathan Adrian took the bronze. And Maya DiRado knocked off the Iron Lady in the 200 backstroke, pulling off a furious rally on the final lap to beat Katinka Hosszu. Hosszu settled for silver, denied in her bid for a fourth gold in Rio. She also won gold in 800 free relay and silver in 400 free relay.
Two golds in the medley relays Saturday will put the USA past its 2012 medal output in the pool. Friday was his second gold of these Games, added to the one he won for swimming in the prelims of the 400 freestyle relay.
– Maya Moore scored 12 points as the USA clobbered Canada 81-51 to clinch Group B in women’s basketball. Finally, Ledecky had some hands to shake, some friends to hug, some fellow humans with whom to share the moment. Johnson was two games away from wrapping up the match in the third set.
On the medal stand, though, she finally broke down in tears. The seventh-seeded Keys will face two-time Wimbledon champ Petra Kvitova (kuh-VIH’-toh-vah) for the bronze tomorrow.
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The same double had racked his 31-year-old body at U.S. Olympic trials. Ledecky won the same three events here in Rio.
