Efimova only learned last Friday that she could compete, and officials were forced to reissue the start lists to include her for the breaststroke events. “I’ve been swimming for 16 years and to have it come to this is just a dream come true”, said 21-year-old Murphy, a first-time Olympian. “I’m so excited to get the gold I can’t even believe it”.
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Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu said she felt in “great shape” today as she powered to her second gold medal of the Rio Olympics – and stayed on track for three more.
Hungarian Katinka Hosszu continued her golden Olympics, winning the women’s 200 metre individual medley.
Australian teenager Kyle Chalmers was fastest in the 100m heats – his time of 47.90 was the third fastest this year – with American Caeleb Dressel second in 47.91 and Britain’s Scott Duncan third in 48.01. Her husband. It’s true that Tusup coming on as Hosszu’s coach after her disappointing turn at the London 2012 Olympics (she returned home without a single medal) has seen a marked improvement in her success as a swimmer.
Sun, who won the 400 and 1500 freestyle at the London Games, touched the wall in one minute, 44.65 seconds to beat South Africa’s Chad Le Clos by 0.55 seconds and become the first Chinese to win 200m gold.
Katie Ledecky of the US won her second gold medal of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games while Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu made it a hat-trick of victories when she came first in the women’s 200m individual medley final.
It was still below the 36 million viewers NBC had for the corresponding Sunday at the 2012 London Games.
“I think, unfortunately, that everything that’s come out with the McLaren report and with the Russians, I think most Eastern European countries are all being looked at the same way regardless of the doping controls in their own country”, Coventry said.
Of course, (Katie) Ledecky, she’s one of a kind so it feels like a gold to me that I’m after her.
DiRado competes for the United States. “Having three so far is really just a bonus”.
“My semi needed to be better so I could be in an inside land and have someone to push me”, she concluded. China’s Xu Jiayu surged to the silver in 52.31, while another USA swimmer David Plummer, stretched for the bronze in 52.40 – just three-hundredths of a second ahead of a fading Larkin.
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“I was so nervous, so afraid, what if I don’t win a medal?” she said.
