“I just want to say a big thanks to him, he really helped me a lot”.
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“For Sydney, I just wanted to make the team”. Then, during the customary stroll around the pool to pose for photographers, Phelps broke ranks and bounded into the stands to plant a kiss on Boomer, the son who symbolizes just how much Phelps’ life has changed since a second drunken-driving arrest two years ago.
“He’s just proving that he is the greatest swimmer of all time with tonight and that 100m split was 47.1”, said his teammate Townley Haas about Phelps anchoring the US relay victory.
(Finals) Friday Aug. 12, 9:12 p.m.
The real race of the night was the 200m butterfly, which Phelps won by fingertips.
“The way he raced, everything he had was in there”, Bowman said. She already crushed the world record in the 400 free, in addition to anchoring the Americans to a silver medal in the 4×100 free relay.
“That was probably one of my most challenging doubles”, the 31-year-old Phelps said.
Michael Phelps proved he is still the undisputed king of the swimming world. “I think I succeeded in giving them momentum”, said Hagino, who swam the opening leg.
Now, the 16-year-old – the youngest archer at Rio 2016 – is into the last 16 of the men’s individual events.
“That event was kind of my bread and butter”. I don’t care about the time. Having that come to an end, it’s weird, it’s insane to think about. “It’s insane to think about”.
The Americans have raced so far ahead of the competition in recent years, it’s getting hard to remember when it wasn’t this way.
Phelps will actually have two chances for gold on Tuesday. USA, we always show up when the time’s right. “We know our coaches are going to make the decision putting our best foot forward”. A year ago, the friendship turned into an intense rivalry when le Clos, competing at the world championships in Russian Federation, took offense to Phelps’ comments that the world’s top times in the butterfly events weren’t very impressive.
For Phelps, the only drama in the relay came when he split his swimming cap.
Michael Phelps sat alone, thoroughly exhausted. Ledecky, 19, is often called the future of American swimming; Phelps has sometimes been seen as part of its past.
Majestically seizing two more golds, Phelps was the buzz of the Games on Tuesday – even more than the speculation over why the water in the Olympic diving pool turned mysteriously green overnight.
After the history of 2008, Phelps made a decision to pull back his commitments in London.
“It’s remarkable given not just his age but everything that’s transpired since London and before London and just the whole totality of that”, he said.
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Ledecky, meanwhile, leaves her competitors in her wake in the distance events, such as the 400 and 800 meters. It’s the only one he has swam in all five of his Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney, when, as a 15-year-old, he finished fifth. The American could still win another three medals.
