Phelps easily beat Lochte and the rest of the field Thursday night in the 200-meter individual medley, besting his American rival by almost 3 seconds.
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“I’ve been able to kind of finish how I wanted to”, Phelps said.
After realizing his mistake, the broadcaster said, “I apologize, I got my lanes mixed up”. “Hopefully I can keep it rolling one more time”.
While Phelps became one of only three athletes to have won titles in the same individual event at four straight Games, Chen tested positive for a diuretic, the Chinese Swimming Association told state media.
They were co-favorites entering the race and had two strong competitors in Kosuke Hagino of Japan, the victor of the 400 IM earlier in these Games plus the owner of the fastest 200 IM time of the year.
Japan’s Hiromasa Fujimori was fourth and Lochte fifth in the last individual race of his long career, with a flagging Pereira seventh.
Video of the moment can be seen and heard here (NBC does not allow us, or other media sites, to post Olympic footage).
She earned her third gold of the Rio games on Wednesday in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. He was aiming to get into the second semifinal, which would have given him some extra recovery time after the 200 IM final. “We know our coaches are going to make the decision putting our best foot forward”.
Neither one of them made the podium by themselves.
Franklin (1:57.03) and Melanie Margalis (1:57.04) were essentially even, though Franklin’s experience and resume as a five-time medalist at the 2012 London Games would seemingly give her an edge for the fourth position.
“We do have a very young team, so anything I can teach them on my last couple of days as a U.S. swimmer, I’m proud to do”. “If that’s not including me, then that’s what I want”.
On Friday he set a new Olympic record of 50.39 seconds.
Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom also crept by her to take bronze to complete her collection after winning gold in the 100m fly and silver in the 200m free.
Li Zhuhao of China had the third fastest time overall.
American Ryan Murphy completed a Rio double after bullying world champion Mitchell Larkin in the men’s 200m backstroke, winning in 1:53.62 to underline USA dominance of the event.
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In the only non-American victory of the night, Rie Kaneto of Japan pulled away from Yulia Efimova to take gold in the women’s 200 breaststroke.
