Michael Phelps closed out the Rio Olympics in the only way imaginable. After his Olympic Trials performance was diminished by injury, the 200 IM was his only opportunity to win individual gold and beat his friend, rival and Rio roommate Phelps. Stunning not for the fact that she won, but in how she did it.
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“I guarantee he will be there”, Lochte said on NBC’s Today show, according to USA Today’s A.J.
Consider a gold on Saturday icing on the cake as Phelps seeks to ride off into the Rio sunset with medals aplenty draped around his neck. Ryan Murphy also chipped in a gold in the men’s 200-meter backstroke.
On Friday he set a new Olympic record of 50.39 seconds.
For the first time in an Olympics, triplets will compete in an event.
It just seemed weird.
US athletes earn $25,000 for winning gold. Whether he would medal was in doubt.
Asked if he wished he’d been born in a different era, Lochte said no. victor of six Olympic golds and 12 total, he joined Phelps on the gold-medal winning 4×200 free relay on Tuesday. He was gracious in defeat, blaming himself for not doing more to counter the extraordinary skills of Giyasov, one of the top emerging talents from his nation’s dominant boxing team.
The Americans finished in three minutes, 27.95 seconds, an Olympic record, to win by 1.29 seconds. “Done. (South African co-silver medallist) Chad (Le Clos) asked me in the award area and the Dwyers were chanting ‘four more years”. Instead, he is dominating like he did in his prime, with four gold medals and a silver and (maybe) one more to come in his final relay on Saturday night.
Never before had those words been uttered at the Olympic Games. And their fans assumed they would bring home gold again.
The United States women’s soccer team was eliminated by Sweden in a penalty shootout in the quarterfinals Friday.
No gold for Hope Solo in Rio.
“I don’t know how to answer it anymore”, she said.
Johnson tried returning for a second Olympics after taking a 20-month hiatus from the sport.
“I really can’t describe how this moment feels”.
“It is OK to be a coward if you win”, Sundhage said. Tonight’s the last time that I’ll be suiting up and racing at this level. The woman in this race was Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana, who smashed the decades-old mark in the 10,000 meters. We’ll just have to wait and see!
London gold medalist Roniel Iglesias is out of the Olympic boxing tournament. She credited her practice habits and God.
Li Keke, a spokeswoman for China’s national anti-doping agency, said she had no additional information on the Chen case.
But he gave that up, deciding to spend his final competitive years riding just on the track. She certainly has nothing to complain about after winning two golds, a silver and a bronze in Rio.
“The biggest thing for me through the meet so far (is that) I’ve been able to kind of finish how I wanted to”. “Not some crappy little race in northern France – Paris-Tours – climbing off in the feed zone”.
Looks like 22 Olympic gold medals is enough for champion swimmer Michael Phelps. That makes him the most-decorated athlete from Great Britain and the cyclist with the most medals ever.
The men’s team foil gold medal match starts at 6:30 p.m. after a day of competition.
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About half the official competitions in those games had only American entrants, and some historians have suggested that even some of the athletes who are listed as part of the USA team likely were newly arrived immigrants who either hadn’t become citizens yet or never actually completed that process.
