Michael Phelps of the US celebrates winning the men’s 200-meter butterfly and the gold medal on Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro.
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Katie Ledecky more than lived up to pre-race hype, with a gold-medal freestyle performance so dominating that by one camera angle she seemed like the only swimmer in the pool.
France, the silver medallists in London four years ago, failed to qualify.
“I never took performance-enhancing substances”, Hosszu said in an interview with Reuters a year ago. The couple met as students at the University of Southern California. However, the 27-year-old had to work hard to hold off Great Britain’s Siobhan-Marie O’Connor to complete the individual medley double, lowering the Olympic mark she had set in the heats.
Hosszu recorded a time of 4:26:36 to win gold, beating the old record by almost two seconds, although it looked as if the gap would be even larger than that early in Saturday night’s race. “She just decided that in such a busy schedule, it would be best to rest and be prepared for the race tonight”.
Sun, who won the 400 and 1500 freestyle at the London Games, touched the wall in one minute and 44.65 seconds to beat South Africa’s Chad Le Clos by 0.55 seconds.
“She skipped the butterfly to have spare energy for the 200 IM”, Hungarian Swimming Federation attache Gergely Csurka told Reuters.
“Feeling a little rusty this morning, trying to get back into the meet after a late night”, said Adrian, who had a late night on Sunday after winning the 4x100m freestyle relay in a lineup that included 19=times gold medal victor Michael Phelps.
“I guess I got to sleep at 3am and I was on an 11am bus”.
Hosszu was having none of it – snubbing the reporter who wrote the story in a post-200 medley press conference as she aimed a steely look at her husband in the back of the room.
The Russian said she had wanted to win gold to prove her critics wrong. At the touch, Plummer clocked out at 52.40 and denied Larkin a medal by just three hundredths of a second.
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And she’s not done yet. Tusup continued his critique in the warm-down area, where two people said they overheard him suggesting to Hosszu that she stay in the water and drown.
