“I honestly I don’t know at this very moment where that stands”, Phelps said when asked how it compared to some of his other great nights in the pool. “I felt like I was standing still”, Phelps said. “There wasn’t a chance in hell I would lose that tonight and if I did every ounce of energy would have been left in the pool”, he said.
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Boudia took his medal to Rio because he wanted to show it off in children’s hospital in Rio, but said he usually has it locked away.
He has three more opportunities and a possible seven races in Rio, his final Olympics, in the 100m butterfly, 4x100m medley relay and 200m individual medley, which begins on Wednesday.
Cupping therapy made its Olympic debut this year, most notably on American swimmer Michael Phelps, and raised plenty of questions about the treatment. “Doing a double like that is a lot harder than it once was”. “It’s good to see he’s awake”. It’s been a whirlwind 24 hours for the winningest Olympian of all time.
Conor Dwyer, Ryan Lochte, Townley Haas and Phelps won the 4×200 freestyle relay, with Phelps as the anchor.
The American phenom, who won the 400m title with a stunning world record on day two, clocked 1:53.73 to win by 0.35 seconds from Sjostrom.
The Americans touched home in 7 minutes 00.66 seconds.
Ledecky, who is also hoping to successfully defend the 800-meter title that she won in London at age 15, has also already helped the United States claim silver in the 4×100 meter relay.
“That event is kind of like my bread and butter”, Phelps told reporters.
But the South African was silenced as his rival led for the last 150 metres to secure the gold medal on Tuesday.
Equally one can empathize with how Chad le Clos must be feeling particularly given his quote earlier in the week that when he swam this year he was not only swimming for his coach and himself but for his country and for his family who have been going through a particularly tough time this year with fights of their own against cancer. Siobhan-Marie O’Connor of Britain challenged Hosszu all the way but had to settle for silver.
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Hosszu, nicknamed the “Iron Lady” could add another gold to her tally when she competes in the 200-meter backstroke.
