“Come on”, as they laughed sarcastically.
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Phelps said he’s eager to play catch with his son in the backyard, take him to sporting events, do whatever he can to be a huge part of Boomer’s life. This is it. I’m done.
“You guys won’t see me at one of these things for a long time”, he told reporters. There’s no better way than finishing with a gold medal.
Bolt beat American Justin Gatlin, who was greeted by the fans with raucous boos, by.08 seconds.
Ledecky who already has three gold medals and one silver at the Rio Games, posted a time of 8:12.86 in topping the preliminary heats.
While swimming might be practically over in the 2016 Rio Olympics, the awesome performance put on by the U.S. Swim Team will not be forgotten any time soon. And then she was like, ‘What about 100 fly?
Whats even crazier about this is the fact that Phelps is still just 31-years old and the fact that he didn’t win a single medal when he competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
“I said when I was 15 years old, I want to change the sport of swimming”. The U.S.A. men’s swimming team wins another gold medal.
Olympic legend Michael Phelps may be retiring, but the Americans are in good hands with Katie Ledecky as the new face of US swimming.
“I can get in the water and be really, really upset and I can get out of the water and I can be a happy, outgoing person again. I don’t feel like I need to represent something bigger than that right now”, she said.
“This is the way I wanted to hang my suit up”.
Elaine Thompson of Jamaica won the women’s 100-meter title in 10.71 seconds, ending fellow Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s bid to win the event for a third straight Olympics. Sixteen nations in all won Rio swimming medals, but host nation Brazil was shut out.
He went, he conquered and he made some (more) history along the way.
Most of these kids train four to five times a week, for two and three hours at a time to hopefully have a collection of gold medals of their own someday.
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The United States won its 1,000th Olympic gold medal yesterday when the American women’s 4×100 metre medley relay team clinched victory at the Rio Games. Every Olympic audience member has witnessed the pure joy with which the United States has celebrated the incredible performances from its various teams, especially the seemingly endless stream of gold medals being produced by the US swimming team.
