Joseph Schooling won first with a time of 50.39, faster than his idol’s best record. Murphy broke U.S.A.’s previous Olympic record, which gave him his third gold medal at Rio 2016. And everyone was just ecstatic for him to win his 22nd gold medal a few days ago, but as he announced his retirement from the Olympic competitions, the swimmer just got another medal, acquiring a number of 23 gold medals for his career.
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The U.S. had arrived in Rio with 977 gold medals, according to Olympstats.com, and had sat on 998 for much of the day until Jeff Henderson put them on the brink with his victory in the long jump.
Biles’ three golds in Rio are the most by a female gymnast from the U.S.in one Olympics. He was said to be exhausted of the sport at the time, but returned to the pool about a year and a half later. “He’s the reason I wanted to be a better swimmer”.
“No matter what country you swim for, you’re indebted to Michael Phelps for bringing a lot of exposure to the sport and making it a little more mainstream”, Murphy said. But last week a Brazilian security officer was fatally shot after taking a wrong turn into a slum, two Australian rowing coaches were attacked and robbed in Ipanema and Portugal’s education minister was held up at knifepoint on a busy street.
The victory came just minutes after the women’s medley relay gave the United States its 1,000th Olympic gold medal at the Summer Games.
Turning back the clock in his fifth and final Games, Phelps produced a blistering third leg of butterfly to restore his team’s lead and tee up victory after Britain’s Adam Peaty had threatened to gatecrash his party. At London Olympic, he won 4 Gold with 2 Silver.
Connor Jaeger gave the US another silver in the 1,500 free, leaving the American with 33 swimming medals in Rio – matching the highest total since they captured 34 against a depleted field at the boycotted Los Angeles Games of 1984.
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With a gold medal around his neck.
