You would think Michael Phelps has gotten used to accepting Olympic gold medals.
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Phelps blew away Ryan Lochte – and everyone else, for that matter – to win his fourth gold medal of the Rio Olympics and 22nd overall with a victory in the 200-meter individual medley Thursday night.
Olympic roommates Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte maintain a relaxed vibe at the athletes’ village. “It is going to be the race of the Olympics”.
But the 200 IM.
Phelps has won the event at the past three Olympics, while Lochte has twice finished second in the event.
Campbell and her younger sister, Bronte, were hoping to battle for gold after teaming up to lead Australia to a victory in the 4×100 free relay.
“When they race against each other, they just go faster, ” said Gaines, vice president of aquatics for the Central Florida YMCA.
“It is must-see TV, or it’s must-see live”. The clock is ticking down on Phelps, who races five more times before hanging up his suit at age 31. “That’s going to be missed”.
Abbey Weitzeil, already a silver medalist at these Rio Games in the 4x100m freestyle relay, advanced to the semifinals in seventh place with her time of 53.54.
“It’s definitely different”, Lochte said.
The Olympics came to an end for another USA backstroke champion.
Baby Boomer Phelps is catching all the action at the Rio Olympics! That’s why he brings out the best of me. Allison Schmitt, competing in what is likely the final event of her career, clearly earned one of them with a blistering split time of 1:55.95.
The 200-meter freestyle is not an event in which Ledecky overwhelms. “It’s the same two events that he had in 2004”. Now he is ready. His little family was there to cheer him on, and NBC Olympics captured this sweet moment between father and son during the Games.
The first of those is Thursday night, and in many ways it is the most interesting.
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True to his word, Michael Phelps is soaking it all up in his Olympic swansong, enjoying some of the sweetest moments of his illustrious career as he turns his farewell into one long lap of honour.
