Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympic athlete ever, finished his Olympic career with a gold medal in the men’s 4×100 medley relay.
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‘Between now and London, I was so much more emotional during these Games, I think that showed at times on camera, that’s the difference.
That was his 23rd career gold medal and would place the Republic of Phelps in 39th place for most gold medals won by a country, all-time, Summer and Winter Games combined.
Baby Boomer Phelps, who has already had his first swimming lessons and who has been cheering for his dad at the Olympics (to the extent a months-old-baby-can), weighs exactly what you’d think an infant would; probably less than 20 lbs. The U.S. Swim Team, by comparison, also contributed over half of the current medals won by the United States in total – which is 60 as of Sunday morning.
“When I got out of the warm-up pool for the last time to get ready to go up to the blocks, I have the white shoes that I wore pretty much every finals”, Phelps told ABC News’ T.J. Holmes Monday.
“This is the cherry on top of the cake that I wanted and I couldn’t be happier with how things ended”.
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At the 2013 World Championships she won four gold medals and broke two world records.
Puig led a star-studded podium featuring Kerber, who became the first German to win a medal in tennis since Stefanie Graf, and two-time Wimbledon victor Petra Kvitova taking the bronze. Still, the American leaves Rio with a fifth Olympic medal in five appearances.
Flashing a big smile throughout the session, Ledecky, who lives the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Maryland, has remained an amateur swimmer, and not long after she returns from Rio she will head off for college at Stanford University in California.
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USA swimmers Maya DiRado and Missy Franklin advanced to Thursday night’s semifinals for the women’s 200-meter backstroke, posting the third and 11th fastest times, respectively. Twenty-one-year-old Joseph Schooling touched the wall first, becoming the first ever Olympic champion from Singapore. United States Gold: 28, Silver: 28, Bronze: 28, Total: 84 2.
