“A thousandth gold for team U.S.”, said Manuel, who swam the anchor leg for her second gold of the games and second medal of the night.
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Recent medals tally posted in the official NBC Olympics website put Team U.S. firmly in the lead with 69 medals followed by China with a total of 45 and Great Britain with 38. The swimmers delivered: In addition to the races we’ve already mentioned, Connor Jaeger set a new American record in the men’s 1500m freestyle and won a silver medal.
The next country on the all-time list is the Soviet Union, several hundred behind, and you’d need to add up the combined efforts of the next four nations behind the U.S. to get anywhere near 1,000. Kayaalp stunned Lopez in the 2015 world championships, and a second win over the Cuban would signify a shift in dominance between these long-time rivals.
Australia took the silver medal in a time of 3:55.00 and Denmark rounded out the podium with bronze medals, 0.01 seconds behind Australia.
The crowd at the Olympic Aquatic Center in Rio was going wild before Phelps dove in.
The Campbells raced out ahead of the pack in the first length, but both faded late in the race, allowing Manuel, the Rio roommate of fellow Cardinal swimming superwoman Katie Ledecky, to touch the wall ahead of them.
After the race was over, relative quiet returned to the arena.
Jason Kenny, the understated powerhouse of British track cycling, will equal Sir Chris Hoy’s record of six gold medals and one silver if he wins the men’s keirin event tonight.
It was the USA’s first medal in this event since Johnny Gray took bronze at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
Olympic swimmer and history maker Simone Manuel grew up in Texas before moving to the Bay Area to swim for Stanford – but she wasn’t the only one who traded the Lone Star State for the Bay’s beaches and scenic views.
At a meeting with the female athletes on the eve of the games, he told them about the Homestead Act, the 1862 law that encouraged America’s westward migration by providing free land to settlers. They’d better start planning.
It is important for teams to take an early lead in the medal count because before we know the games can quickly come to an end. In London, she swam this relay with Rebecca Soni, Allison Schmitt, and Missy Franklin. Blume finished in 24.07; Manuel in 24.09.
Cate Campbell, Mitch Larkin and Emily Seebohm are among the highest profile athletes who failed to turn pre-Olympic expectations into gold.
In true Olympic pan-cultural fashion, the next song: “Enter Sandman”. Gold medallists Kathleen Baker (USA) of USA, Lilly King (USA) of USA, Dana Vollmer (USA) of USA and Simone Manuel (USA) of USA pose with their medals and national flag. Simone Biles won another gold medal on Day 9, doing so in the women’s vault.
The U.S. hasn’t faced Japan since the 1996 quarterfinals when the Americans won by 15 points. Those two teams were third- and fourth-fastest in qualifying.
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“And we beat Russian Federation and China, so that’s a win for the good guys”.
