There are 22 golds to be won on Day 8 of the Rio Games in 13 different sports. And silver in the 4×100 relay. She earned a gold medal as part of the 4×200 freestyle relay after swimming in the preliminaries but the games have been disappointing for her.
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On the water, the smallest sculls (singles) and the largest (eights) are fighting for gold for both the men and the women.
American teammate Katie Ledecky will return to the pool for the 800 freestyle, where she set an Olympic record Thursday.
Lochte doubted in 2012 that the world had seen the last of Phelps at the Olympics.
At age 35, Ervin now becomes the oldest swimmer to win an individual gold at the Olympics.
DAY 2: Catherine Skinner wins shooting gold.
Complexo de Mare, in the north of Rio, groups some 15 neighbourhoods and is home to about 150,000 people.
United States’ Carli Lloyd lies on the ground during a quarter-final match of the women’s Olympic football tournament between the United States and Sweden in Brasilia Friday Aug. 12, 2016.
“This whole day has been kind of insane because it’s all of these little last things that I’ve gotten to do, like my last warmup with the girls at the training pool today”, DiRado said. “Now we’ve got something back, a medal”.
“He doesn’t cry very often and I don’t cry very often”, Ledecky said.
“You’re so focused on what I’ve got to do in the race, you’re not really aware of what’s going on and how close it is”, Wiggins said, “I wasn’t anxious about how close the Aussies were”. “The best team did not win today”. “They didn’t want to play great soccer”.
These are supposed to be the last Olympic Games for Phelps, who also retired and came back after more than a year off.
Later, Solo tweeted: “Losing sucks”. Dusmatov on Friday beat American Nico Hernandez, who will get bronze and end a medal drought for the US that stretched to 2008.
The three military police agents, drafted from outside Rio to help during the Games, were using a cellphone app to navigate and took a wrong turn into the Complexo de Mare slum and traffickers opened fire on their vehicle.
Men’s quarterfinals are underway a day after Sweden’s striking upset against the USA women in penalty kicks.
But with just four medals in the first week of the Games -one gold, one silver and two bronze – Brazilian athletes will need to perform better to fulfil that objective.
Men will swim for the gold in the 50 free at 10:44 p.m. He has not lost a major race since the 2011 worlds, but Ethiopia’s Yigrem Demelash is hoping to restore his nation’s ownership of the race.
The U.S. goalkeeper criticized the Swedes for the way they played in beating the Americans 4-3 in a penalty shootout following a 1-1 draw – a result that means the world’s top-ranked team will miss out on an Olympic gold-medal match in women’s soccer for the first time.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – A stunner at the Rio Olympics: Michael Phelps was beaten.
“I’m not going four more years and I’m standing by that” said Olympic legend Michael Phelps after being beaten to Gold in his final individual race in Rio.
May Schooling had also told The Straits Times: “If all goes well, Singapore will rejoice with us”.
Ledecky finished one of the most impressive individual performances at one Olympics on Friday night, winning her third individual gold medal – this one in the women’s 800-meter freestyle, which she won in a world record-breaking time of 8:04.79.
The men’s team foil gold medal match starts at 6:30 p.m. after a day of competition.
Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the two-time defending Olympic champion, had the fastest time in qualifiers Friday night.
There are six sprinters to watch: Elaine Thompson of Jamaica, Murielle Ahoure of the Ivory Coast, Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands and Americans English Gardner, Tianna Bartoletta and Tori Bowie.
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Bolt won his first heat of the games in 10.07 seconds Saturday.
