“I know he’s got a lot to go and turn it around”, Chalmers said.
Advertisement
“But I don’t want to stand here being the guy rolling off excuses it was this or that”.
Eighteen-year-old Kyle Chalmers dethroned defending champion Nathan Adrian in the final of the 100-meter freestyle Wednesday night, taking that title Down Under for the first time in 48 years. “The best answer I can give is that I can”, said Armstrong, who retired after each of her two previous Olympic wins. I don’t want to take anything away from what Kyle has achieved. “This is his moment and he should really soak it up and he deserves all the recognition he can get”.
“The 50m free is, in my mind, different to any other race”.
“I think down the track at some stage, whether it’s just local comp footy …” His entry time was 55.59.
Kjetil Borch and Olaf Tufte finished third to collect Norway’s first medal at the Rio Olympics. He had the second-best time (47.91) in the heats behind Chalmers, then delivered another solid effort in the semifinals (47.97) to finish fifth.
Ashwood hit the wall in a time of 8:22.57 to safely move through to the next round.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Katie Ledecky was the fastest swimmer in the pool, and she brought her American teammates along for the ride. As his opposition started to fight fatigue, Chalmers was feeling good, evident in the 24.44 split he delivered over the final lap.
“So apparently I’ve just won a gold medal!”.
Mireia Belmonte Garcia finally claimed her first gold medal after two silvers and a bronze with a victory in the 200 butterfly.
Kyle Chalmers was second fastest into the men’s 100m freestyle semi-final after American Nathan Adrian.
The top qualifier was Singapore’s Joseph Schooling in 51.41.
In the relay, Schmitt captured gold in what was likely the final race of her career.
While swimming remains one of the powerhouse Olympic sports, golf returns today for the first time since the 1904 Games in St Louis, Missouri, when George Lyon of Canada won the men’s title. But powered by his enormous feet – size 11 at age 11 – Kyle stormed to victory in his school carnival, and things snowballed. “Although it was pretty daunting, I loved every second of it”. “This will come to me tomorrow”.
The women’s 200m backstroke is a competitive field with the versatile Katinka Hosszu from Hungary topping the qualifiers with her time of 2:06.09. “We’ve had such a great meet”.
“I was prepared for any circumstance, whether we were ahead or behind”, Ledecky said.
“They actually had to show it to me this morning because they knew I wouldn’t be able to focus if I saw it tonight before my race”, Chalmers said.
“I have definitely flown under the radar”, said the Australian of a win that took him by surprise.
Advertisement
You have to go back to the likes of Johnny Weissmuller (Paris 1924 and Amsterdam 1928) and Duke Kahanamoku (Stockholm 1912 and Antwerp 1920; there weren’t Games in 1916 because of World War I). I had to choose.
