If things don’t get better in the final week, that is how these games will ultimately be remembered. Lasse Norman Hansen of Denmark leads the six-event contest at the midway point.
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Day 8 of the Rio Games features medal action in swimming, track and field, tennis, fencing, track cycling and more.
“I’ll probably let him take one for show and tell”, said Michael Phelps after winning his 23rd and final gold medal as part of the US men’s medley relay Saturday night.
Earlier in the night, Manuel took silver in the 50 free.
The men will hand out individual medals in vault and still rings. Puig is looking for her nation’s first gold in any sport in Olympic history. Olympic champion Britain and world champion US are likely to meet for gold in the velodrome. But here is where his 23 golds overall stack up against the world.
Open champion Henrik Stenson is the favorite to bring home a gold medal for Sweden, followed by Sergio Garcia of Spain, Britain’s Justin Rose and Rickie Fowler and Bubba Watson of the U.S.
There are several factors that go into the success of the USA program, starting with some simple numbers.
The round of 16 continues for both men and women the day after defending champions Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross took on Marta Menegatti and Laura Giombini of Italy in the late match.
Hope Solo sure has a way with words.
“I guarantee he will be there, ” Lochte said on NBC’s TODAY show on Friday.
“He came back with more objective”, Lochte observed. “I’m very proud of this team”. “It’s that X factor – that we are a family, and not just a team”.
Solo said the Swedes “didn’t want to pass the ball”.
And as he leaves his final press conference from his final race, he gives one final statement to put a capstone on the greatest career swimming has ever known. He’ll have to watch videos of the five gold medals and one silver he earned at these Olympics, at age 31, in front of skeptics who had believed even greatness has its limits.
Later, Solo tweeted: “Losing sucks”. ‘I mean I try and hold myself together, I really do.
By winning his country’s first Olympic gold, Schooling earned a bonus of $1 million Singapore dollars or almost US$750,000.
A potential Latin American grudge match is on tap at the Rio Olympics as Brazil takes on Colombia in the men’s soccer quarterfinals. “You ask anybody: Do you want to be great at World Championships or be great at the Olympics?”
Simone Biles, the Olympic all-around champion, is seeking her fourth gold medal in Rio, this time on the balance beam. He also said the London Games were his last four years ago only to change his mind.
The men’s 10,000 kicks off with Farrah the dominant athlete.
The 25-year-old is allowed to compete in the Olympics as she trains in the U.S. and has undergone regular drug tests over the last two years. Phelps has lasted eons past his should-be expiration date.
Teams are allowed to rotate swimmers between the heats and finals of the relay events. One night after his only setback of the games, an upset loss to Joseph Schooling in the 100 fly, Phelps was back on top.
In the previous race, Simone Manuel anchored the USA women’s 4×100 meters medley team to the 1,000th gold medal in her country’s Olympic history. She is also likely to compete in the women’s 4×100 medley relay.
Medals will go to the fastest women in the world after their 100 finals at 10:37 p.m. Semifinals start at 9 p.m.
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.
Defending men’s gold medal champions Russian Federation take on 2014 world champions Poland at 1 p.m.
The final is Sunday night, and Bolt has told his parents he’s ready for them despite nursing a sore hamstring.
Rugby is back in the Olympics for the first time since 1924.
The first day of track and field yielded a couple firsts for the United States: Michelle Carter is not only the first female American to take gold in the shot put, but she and her father Michael (who won silver in 1984 before embarking on an National Football League career) are the first-ever father-daughter team to capture individual-event track and field medals. This is how I wanted to finish my career. The only other swimmer to do it was Debbie Meyers in 1968 in Mexico City. Meyers took the 200, 400 and 800 at Mexico City in 1968.
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Russia’s Olympic team has complained to Rio organizers after flags hanging in its Olympic village accommodation were allegedly desecrated. Rio was a risky city to begin with, but the incidents are even more disturbing considering there are more than 85,000 security forces deployed to protect the games.
