The win guaranteed the “Baltimore Bullet” his 23rd gold medal in five Games appearances stretching over 16 years, not to mention a fifth win at Rio 26 after success in the 4x100m freestyle, 4x200m freestyle, 200m butterfly and 200m individual medley.
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Cody Miller, who swam in the gold-medal winning relay race on Saturday, said, “The G.O.A.T (Greatest Of All Time) Michael Phelps isn’t just an incredible swimmer”.
The Olympic curtain came down on Michael Phelps Saturday, but not before he and his U.S. 4×100-meter medley relay colleagues could add another medal to his already record-breaking collection. NBC Olympics collected video of each of his Olympic races, along with post-race and reflective comments from Phelps, his longtime coach Bob Bowman and teammates who’ve gone on his Olympic journey with him. “I hope it shows that people from the smallest countries in the world can do extraordinary things”.
Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky & Co. made sure the USA stayed firmly atop the swimming world.
The black man whose killing by police on Saturday touched off rioting in Milwaukee was shot by a black officer after turning toward him with a gun in his hand, the police chief said Sunday, as Wisconsin’s governor put the National Guard on standby against any further violence on the city’s mostly black north side.
“After the relay last night, that’s why I was hunched over and more emotional than I was in London, because it actually meant something”.
“I got to watch about the last two games of Andy’s match…[and] heard he watched my last hole before going on to court”. This is an impressive feat, considering the old record had been standing for over 2,000 years. Medals are also up for grabs in men’s pole vault and men’s 800 meters. Over time, a few of the world’s best came out to chase down medals and to represent their nations.
Venus Williams can become the first tennis player with five career Olympic golds, pairing with Rajeev Ram against Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jack Sock in an all-American mixed doubles final.
The American women have won 46 consecutive games in the Olympics and are three victories away from a sixth consecutive gold medal.
They’ll play defending world champions Agatha and Barbara on the Brazilians’ home sand to clinch a medal.
But Vollmer’s butterfly averted a crisis and Manuel brought them home in 3:53.13 nearly two seconds ahead of Australia with Denmark taking bronze.
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. “The only thing I was thinking (about) was the gold medal, and the next thing I know, I was on the ground”.
“I don’t really want to compare [it to major championships]…but I feel like this was an opportunity that couldn’t be missed and I feel like it resonated much wider [with the public] than my US Open did”.
“There were lots of ups and downs this week”, she said. Australia and Hungary were a distant second with three gold medals each. He had to cancel but didn’t think that Leo would mind, considering dad had won a gold medal. Sixteen nations in all won Rio swimming medals, but host nation Brazil was shut out.
The top-ranked USA women’s volleyball team, which went 5-0 in Olympic group play, faces Japan in a quarterfinal matchup at 2 p.m.as the Americans try to move one step closer to the first gold in program history.
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King won the 100-meter breaststroke Monday night by more than half a second over Efimova. “Twenty-four years in the sport, and we are finishing up tonight”. “This is an accomplishment we celebrate together”.
