The 31-year-old American, who plans to retire after the Rio Olympics, won a 22nd Olympic gold and 26th medal in all with victory in the 200 metres individual medley on Thursday night.
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At least year’s world championships in Kazan, Russia, three women tied for 200 breaststroke bronze – Spain’s Jessica Vall, Denmark’s Rikke Moeller Pedersen and China’s Shi Jinglin. Armstrong prevailed for her third gold in the event. The most decorated athlete in Olympic history has one more race before retirement.
Andy Murray, the singles tennis champion in London four years ago, moved into the Rio Games final by easily beating Kei Nishikori of Japan 6-1, 6-4 on Saturday.
“I had to work at it every day for many years”.
Then, Ledecky played the waiting game, hanging on the rope for a while to let the rest of the field finish.
Jazz Carlin of Britain finally touched in 8:16.17 to claim silver, just ahead of Hungary’s Boglarka Kapas grabbing bronze in 8:16.37.
Schooling becomes the first Singaporean male athlete to qualify for an Olympic swimming final.
When Sarah Sjostrom – who has had a strong Olympics showing of her own – lost to Ledecky in the 200m freestyle earlier this week, she said she was content. And it was in what he insisted was his last Olympic race. I said it a bunch before.
“We do have a very young team, so anything I can teach them on my last couple of days as a U.S. swimmer, I’m proud to do”.
Phelps won the 100m butterfly title at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Games and will go for a fourth straight win in Friday’s final.
I always felt Joe’s timing for breathing is also a bit off but all these are fine because he has very efficient strokes and superb dolphin kicks to propel him underwater and that’s more important.
These days it seems like whenever something captures the Internet’s attention, it’s only a matter of time before someone takes it too far and gets a tattoo of the recent cultural phenomenon.
The U.S. has an Olympic record contingent of 292 women in the America’s 555-strong Olympic team.
“I’m happy”, Phelps said.
“I’m excited to see what more is to come. It’s a young, hungry team and I think that’s something that is really special that I had the opportunity to be a part of in 2000”. “Phelps got the gold”, said Friedman after a gap of a few seconds.
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It clearly wasn’t a serious ailment: To say Ledecky left the competition in her wake would obscure the fact that much of her wake had settled by the time the other swimmers came along.
