Phelps’ four consecutive golds in the same event are unique for a swimmer, and place him in the same Olympic pantheon as fellow-Americans Al Oerter in the discus and Carl Lewis in the long jump. He announced his return two years later. He’s already won four golds here and has the chance for two more. Ryan Lochte guarantees it. Watching them race each other, only sometimes getting caught up in cat-and-mouse games, hearing Rowdy Gaines call those races with such excitement and passion and learning from the pros – that’s what I lived for.
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Katie Ledecky, now 19, is the youngest member of the USA swim team heading to Rio.
He came in with a time of 54.66 seconds.
“That would be wonderful”, Debbie Phelps said later in the broadcast.
United States’ gold medal victor Michael Phelps competes in the men’s 200-meter individual medley final during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Entering the arena like a gladiator, his face a granite mask of concentration, Phelps dominated a grudge final le Clos had billed as “Ali versus Frazier” to become the oldest individual swimming gold medallist in Olympic history at 31.
With the Rio crowd’s excitement mounting, the three turned nearly together after the backstroke, with Lochte just 0.01 seconds ahead. Two years later in 2014, Phelps announced he was competing for the 2016 Rio Games.
Ryan Murphy grabbed his second gold medal of the Games after winning the 200-meter backstroke title.
Australian Larkin, who failed to medal in the 100m, took silver and Russia’s Evgeny Rylov the bronze.
In the only non-American victory of the night, Rie Kaneto of Japan pulled away from Yulia Efimova to take gold in the women’s 200 breaststroke.
And his win in the 200-meters means the U.S. has won the event six times in a row dating to 1996 in Atlanta.
The Russian, whose participation has provoked open hostility from rival swimmers, was a distant second with China’s Shi Jinglin third. “So I’m saying he’s going to come back for 2020”. We’re racers. It’s meets like these that I love the most where he and I get to go in and duke it out.
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Things starting hitting me this morning.
