The road to Rio has been rocky at times. Others in the mix include Andrew Fisher, a Jamaican who competes for Bahrain, Jamaican Yohan Blake, Americans Marvin Bracy and Trayvon Bromell and Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre.
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On the track, Tori Bowie of the United States was a silver medalist in the women’s 100 meters.
If it’s Sunday, there must be a golf final somewhere.
That meant Phelps hit the water for the third butterfly leg with work to do, and the superstar, swimming his fifth and final Olympics, didn’t disappoint.
The U.S. men’s basketball team could take a lesson from the U.S. women’s soccer team: beware of being the heavy favorite.
Schooling, 21, recalled meeting Phelps just before the Beijing 2008 Games, when the USA team held a training camp in Singapore.
Four-time Olympian Carmelo Anthony says “we’re OK”.
The Americans piled up 16 golds and 33 medals overall, matching their total from the 2000 Sydney Games.
Does she really even need a vault to fly sky-high? Puerto Rico, a territory of the USA, has fielded teams in the Summer Olympics since 1948, and this was the first medal, of any variety, for a woman representing Puerto Rico.
France’s Florent Manaudou, the defending champion, finished second and just 0.01 seconds behind the 35-year-old veteran, who won in 21.40 seconds in a splash and dash down the pool.
On the men’s side, British teammates Louis Smith and Max Whitlock square off in the pommel horse final, along with American Alex Naddour and Ukrainian Oleg Verniaiev.
With two events to go, the Americans’ 33 medals in the pool have already tied the country’s best swimming medal haul since 1992.
Britain’s Andy Murray is going to see if he can turn his trademark menacing grimace into a smile.
For Manuel, it was her second medal of the night – she also won silver in the 50 free – and second gold of the games. That would be Rafael Nadal who captured the world’s attention for a time as he flat-out battled with Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro in front of a crowd so rowdy it would’ve been kicked out of Wimbledon before the first set was over. 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. This list of 62 does not include the 44 countries that have participated without winning any gold medals.
Nothing, it seems, can stop Britain’s Mo Farah over 10,000 meters in a major championship. – “Yes, we can!” – during the Rio de Janeiro Games women’s tennis final. Not three of Kenya’s best trying to wear him down with repeated spurts of acceleration.
While Phelps failed to win his 24th Olympic gold medal, he has nothing but praises for Schooling.
Michael Phelps secured a fairytale end to his career as an Olympic athlete as the United States continued their dominance in the pool on the final night of swimming at the Rio Games. As the Rio Olympics unfolded, athlete after athlete, some visibly shocked to win medals, spoke of how inspired they were by another’s performance – or buoyed by the team’s belief in them.
The goal is to pump in almost 1 million gallons of clean water before the synchronized swimming competition takes place Sunday – and even if everything goes right, they will finish barely four hours before it begins. And it wasn’t until after the fact that Phelps lifted the curtain to reveal the anger and unhappiness of those Games, when he wanted nothing more than to be done with swimming.
An adjacent smaller pool will still be used for the divers, even though it remains murky.
If that was the end, and Phelps insists it is, what a way to go.
“I held back a little bit on the podium but there were some [tears] that were popping down”.
Michael Phelps poses with his gold medal.
The victory came just minutes after the women’s medley relay gave the United States its 1,000th Olympic gold medal at the Summer Games. With 28 medals in all, Phelps is 10 clear of anyone else.
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Rio, according Phelps’ coach of 20 years Bob Bowman, was the swimmer’s chance to fashion the ending he deserved.
