Like many of his contemporaries in Rio, who grew up idolizing Phelps, he keeps an old photo of himself as a bespectacled teenager with the American that was taken at a meeting in Singapore after the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Day 10 of the Rio Games features medal action in track and field, boxing, cycling, wrestling and more.
After a nine-man team won only five fights and zero medals in London, the six-man American team in Rio has already won seven fights and light flyweight Nico Hernandez’s bronze medal.
According to an account by the New York Times, yes indeed, Phelps has inspired others to greatness.
Justin Rose won the first golfing gold medal at the Olympics in 112 years Sunday, beating Henrik Stenson by two strokes, and Simone Biles added a third gold in gymnastics, capturing the women’s vault title.
Phelps’ long-time coach Bob Bowman said swimming was unlikely to see anyone of his sort again.
“It’s an overly easy environment for us to swim fast in because we’ve been through our Olympic trials, which is way more pressure-filled than the Olympics”, Ledecky said.
Katerina Cachova of the Czech Republic competes in the Women’s Heptathlon Javelin Throw on Day 8 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on August 13, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Astonishingly, all three had touched out in 51.14 seconds, behind Schooling’s Olympic record 50.39 in the second dead-heat in a final in two days.
“Tonight’s the last time I’ll be suiting up and racing on this level”, Phelps said.
Schooling’s father Colin, who hosted a viewing party at his home in Singapore, wept when his son won the medal.
Jazz Karlin finally touched in 8:16.17 to claim the silver, just ahead of Hungary’s Boglarka Kapas grabbing the bronze in 8:16.37.
“We were on the podium and it just happened – it nearly felt like a relay!” “Sharing that with three other women is just icing on the cake”. “It’s a nice number”. Allen is also the first to win both the NCAA and the trials titles in the same year since Lee Calhoun of N.C. Central in 1956 and his.18 seconds margin of victory was the largest ever at the Olympic Trials.
Blume was the third Danish swimmer to capture a gold.
Italy’s Paltrinieri won the 1,500 meters freestyle after dominating throughout the race with a relentless display of technique and endurance in the longest event in the pool.
Connor Jaeger gave the US another silver in the 1,500-meter freestyle.
The victor, however, never seemed in doubt after world champion Paltrinieri took the lead at 150 meters and wore down the rest of the field to win by 4.91 seconds.
A similar sentiment was written on the face of Joseph Schooling, the 21-year-old Singaporean whose butterfly wings caused the earth to open up beneath the greatest champion of all, Michael Phelps.
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“That sounds like a lot of pressure. I’m really bad at it”.
