London gold medalist Roniel Iglesias is out of the Olympic boxing tournament. Shes got her daily plans written on laminated cards that she brings with her to the track.
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The Olympic curtain came down on Michael Phelps Saturday, but not before he and his USA 4×100-meter medley relay colleagues could add another medal to his already record-breaking collection.
Phelps has won a medal for his participation on this relay every Olympic Games since 2004.
American Michael Phelps shared the silver in a three-way tie in the 100-meter butterfly, making more history at the Rio Olympics. Puig is looking for her nation’s first gold in any sport in Olympic history.
Ledecky is now finished with her events in Rio.
“For the first time since 1968” – how cool does that sound?
Overall, the US has 2,453 total medals, including 769 silver and 684 bronze.
David Plummer, Kevin Cordes, Tom Shields and Caeleb Dressel will also receive gold medals after swimming in the preliminary heat. And she’ll swim at 8:03 p.m.in the women’s 50 free final, for which she qualified Friday.
Track and field starts Friday and includes preliminaries for the women in the 100 meter.
Others to watch include Elaine Thompson of Jamaica, Murielle Ahoure of the Ivory Coast, Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands and Americans English Gardner, Tianna Bartoletta and Tori Bowie.
The brunette beauty added that it’s also wonderful to share the experience at the RIo Olympics with their infant son. Meyer took the 200, 400 and 800 meter free at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968.
As hosts, Britain were widely criticised for claiming just three medals, none of them gold, at London 2012, but they have exceeded their three-to-five-medal target set by funding partners UK Sport, with a best haul since the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Blume was the third Danish swimmer to capture a gold.
At 11:10 a.m., Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia seeks another medal in the 10,000. Canada’s Hilary Caldwell won the bronze medal.
Phelps’ mother, Debbie, sounded bullish on her son competing in what would be his sixth Olympics where he’d be 35 years old.
At 10 p.m., New Zealand’s shot putter Valerie Adams seeks a comeback from elbow and shoulder surgery.
By the time Ledecky reached for the wall on her 16th lap Friday night, shattering her own world record by almost two seconds with a time of 8 minutes, 4.79 seconds, there wasn’t another swimmer close enough to appear in a photo of the finish.
The day’s other medal event was the men’s 20km walk, where Wang Zhen and Cai Zelin pulled off a Chinese one-two. He added that the pool for water polo and synchronized swimming is being affected in the same way but “we expect the color to be back to blue very shortly”.
The men play Serbia at 7 p.m. While the U.S.is still the team to beat, they were tested in their last contest against Australia. Kyrie Irving had 15 points and Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony added 12 each for the US, which concludes preliminary-round play Sunday against France. For American athletes, this works under the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Operation Gold program.
World champion Madison Kocian posted the top score during qualifying for the uneven bars, finals for which are held at 4:21 p.m.
He departs the scene with a total of 28 Olympic medals culled across five games, beginning in Sydney 16 years ago.
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