Kyle Chalmers (second left) joined James Magnussen, James Roberts and Cameron McEvoy on podium with bronze medals in Men’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay.
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Just minutes after compatriot Madeline Groves won the silver medal in the 200m butterfly, Chalmers became the first Australian in 48 years to win the blue riband race at the Olympics.
The swimmer Kyle Chalmers does not appear to have a Twitter account. I’m not someone who follows swimming too much.
“Obviously swimming is his number-one focus at the moment, but he loves his football – he loves all sports, he’s nuts about basketball, he’s insane about soccer”, Mr Chalmers said.
“I know we’ve been beaten a few times when we’ve gone in fastest so I just wanted to do it for myself, my family, my country and all my friends back home”.
Still to come: Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte swimming in the semifinals of the 200 individual medley and Katie Ledecky anchoring the United States in the 4×200 freestyle relay, seeking her third gold medal of the games.
Tomorrow is due to see another titanic dual between U.S. superstars Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps – chasing a 22nd Olympic gold medal – and home hope Thiago Pereira in the 200m individual medley.
Balandin had earlier claimed a shock 200m breaststroke title to earn Kazakhstan a first ever Olympic swimming medal – of any colour – in 2:07.46.
A gold one, at that. Kazakh weightlifter Nijat Rahimov won the other in the men’s 77kg category.
“I hope he hangs around the pool for a while”, Brett said.
“I remained calm and controlled”.
“Coming into this, I didn’t think it was possible”, he added of the victory.
We’ll keep you up to date with the rest of the Olympic news has it happens over the day.
The Scot wrote: “So apparently I’ve just won a gold medal!”
There was a point in the final, desperate stages of the men’s 100m freestyle final when the main players felt their legs failing and their arms morphing into concrete pillars.
Veteran cyclists Fabian Cancellara and Kristin Armstrong hammered home their Olympic superiority with wins in the time trial.
“You can’t combine these two sports”, Verhaeren said. “Our team manager actually grabbed him last night and got a video of him saying he watched me swim and good luck which was really exciting”.
The family was only reunited following the gold medal performance this morning (Australia time).
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Our men’s butterfly duo of David Morgan and Grant Irvine have both qualified for the semi-finals of the 100m fly tonight, making it through the cut-throat heats in 10 and 12 place respectively.
