He enthusiastically said: “He has never ever beaten Michael Phelps in this competition in the Olympic Games”.
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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.
While the landmark is a swimming first, two other athletes have achieved the feat in other Olympic sports: Al Oerter in discuss and Carl Lewis in long jump. “It’s for a whole bunch of people that came before me and have been an inspiration to me”.
Manuel broke down in tears when she recognized her historic achievement in a sport that still has few African-Americans. Anthony Ervin is the oldest American swimmer in Rio, and he’s 35 himself. She and Canada’s Penny Oleksiak upstaged Australia’s Campbell sisters and shared the podium after they touched in the identical Olympic record time of 52.70. “I only get to put a racing suit on two more times after tonight”. I gave it my all.
Rie Kaneto won Japan’s seventh gold medal at Rio 2016 as GB’s Chloe Tutton narrowly finished outside the medals in the women’s 200m breaststroke. “And that’s not true”. She recalled struggling to process the significance in an interview last month at Stanford.
“I think it took about five minutes to set in”, she said.
“It keeps them excited and hungry for another four years”.
Murphy extended red-white-and-blue dominance of the backstroke events that goes back to 1992.
“Doing the hundred back and having a good time in that helped me to realize that I could do better in the 200 back than I did at trials”.
“You know what, I can definitely say that, because I guarantee he will be there. think so”.
Japan’s Kosuke Hagino took the silver in 1:56.61, while China’s Wang Shun claimed the bronze in 1:57.05.
Michael Phelps (left) and Ryan Lochte (right) after the 200m medley final.
The doting father might need more fingers.
“But I thought more than one person would hold on”.
Thus will history record the latest, avowedly the last, turn in the Phelps-Lochte road show.
Considering all the jaw-dropping moments he’s manufactured this week and how he’s two races away from an all-gold, six-medal haul at these Games, it makes sense to at least wonder.
He sometimes seemed lost without swimming. “I’ve been able to come back and I’ve been able to accomplish things that I just dreamt of”, he said.
The Olympics came to an end for another US backstroke champion.
The transformation began in the fall of 2014 at a treatment center near Phoenix. Namely, raising his son and coaching with Bowman at ArizonaState. “The rehab is what opened him up”.
“Who knows, it could be for a day”, he said. “We’ll have one more time to hop in the pool and duke it out”.
“I probably wouldn’t be the swimmer I am today if it wasn’t for Michael because we bring out the best of each other”, said Lochte, who grew up in Daytona Beach and swam at Florida.
Despite winning four golds in London in 2012, Phelps has said he was dissatisfied with his preparation and results there and wants to bow out on his own terms.
Kaneto finished in 2 minutes 20.30 seconds, beating Russia’s Yulia Efimova by 1.67 seconds.
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Cal sprinters Nathan Adrian and Anthony Ervin advanced to the final of the 50 freestyle with blistering semifinal performances.
