Phelps put the United States ahead to stay on the butterfly leg of the 4×100-meter medley relay, giving the most decorated athlete in Olympic history his 23rd career gold medal Saturday night.
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There were 22 golds at stake on a sun-splashed Day 8 of the Rio Games in 13 sports, including fencing, track cycling, boxing, shooting, trampoline and weightlifting. And she’ll swim at 10:44 p.m.in the women’s 50 free finals, for which she qualified Friday.
That was not a picture presented before by Phelps, not as a young striver in his first Olympics at 15 in Sydney in 2000, not in Athens in 2004 where he arrived already working his way into the ranks of heavyweights alongside Ian Thorpe and Pieter van den Hoogenband.
Blume was the third Danish swimmer to capture a gold.
Gatlin took Saturday’s fastest time in the heats.
In the 400-meter semifinal, comeback kid LaShawn Merritt was the only American through to the final.
China’s world record holder and defending champion Sun Yang failed to qualify for the 1500m final. Still, he won comfortably in 14:34.57. It was the first time that Phelps has even hinted Rio might not be the end. The Luik sisters from Estonia are part of the marathon field that heads out at 9:30 a.m.
But the current legacy is illustrated in a decade-old photograph of a delighted nine-year-old Katie Ledecky with Phelps – the American teenager is proving to be the dominant female swimmer of these Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
He has 28 medals overall, having won five golds and a silver at these games.
“It’s incredible. Really. I have been dreaming of this moment since I was a child and it’s unbelievable”, the 21-year-old said. She barely stood a chance once Ayana got going, but worked to get another medal for Ethiopia.
World champion Madison Kocian posted the top score during qualifying for the uneven bars, finals for which are held at 4:21 p.m.
Like Phelps, Mark Foster is a five-time Olympian and now a commentator for United Kingdom broadcaster the BBC at these Games. Uchimura and Brits Whitlock and Christian Thomas are also in the group of eight finalists who start at 2 p.m.
For Manuel, it was her second medal of the night she also won silver in the 50 free and second gold of the games. Nadal plays Japan’s Nishikori Kei for the bronze.
The women’s doubles gold will either go to Martina Hingis and Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland or Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina of Russian Federation.
At 12 p.m., Sarah Pavan and Heather Bansley take on countrywomen Jamie Broder and Kristina Valjas. Over the course of five Olympic Games and numerous world championships, he’s simply been the best.
The U.S. has won every men’s 4x100m freestyle relay that they have contested, dating back to the event’s debut in 1960. The U.S. men have had two straight close games, topping Australia 98-88 and squeaking by Serbia 94-91.
Phelps was just 15 when John Lohn, U.S. correspondent for the highly-regarded website Swim Vortex, first saw him compete – and he has followed his career in the intervening 16 years. Dusmatov on Friday beat American Nico Hernandez, who will get bronze and end a medal drought for the us that stretched to 2008.
There’s only one holdover from the 2012 gold medal team: Dana Vollmer.
The victor of six gold medals at Athens 2004, eight at Beijing 2008 and four at London 2012 was unable to select any particular highlight.
Wrestling might look like a brand new sport to the casual viewer when it makes its Olympic return Sunday when Greco-Roman grapplers take to the mat.
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Michael Phelps set out with the goal “to change the sport of swimming”.
