Michael Phelps waggled four fingers, recognizing another historic achievement.
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PUIG’S PUSH: Tennis player Monica Puig is one victory from Puerto Rico’s first gold medal in Olympic history. Ryan Lochte was left in his wake every time. “Winning one gold medal is nuts; I can’t imagine winning 22 or 23”.
“It was never about that for me”, Wiggins said, his new medal dangling from his neck. “It’s been a hell of a career”.
Leading at the midway point, Lochte faded to fifth _ almost 3 seconds behind the victor.
“I’ve been able to come back and I’ve been able to accomplish things that I’ve just dreamt of”.
Japan’s Kosuke Hagino took the silver, while China’s Wang Shun claimed the bronze.
Phelps was seeking his 23rd Olympic gold medal and his fourth straight in the 100-meter butterfly, but he was denied by Singapore’s Joseph Schooling, who got off to a blistering start and built a lead that even Phelps couldn’t overcome. Then, he’ll close out these Olympics in the 4×100 medley relay.
A police officer has died after being shot in the head when he and two others working security at the Rio Olympics got lost near a slum and encountered gunfire. “I feel like we have a lot of hungry kids who are pumped for the next four years”.
With the shared win, Manuel became the first African-American woman to capture gold in swimming.
Chen Xinyi, 18, tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide, a diuretic, on August 7 after she finished fourth in the 100m butterfly final in 56.72 seconds, the Chinese Swimming Association (CSA) announced in its statement on Friday morning.
“This whole day has been kind of insane because it’s all of these little last things that I’ve gotten to do, like my last warmup with the girls at the training pool”, DiRado said. “But, I mean, I went out there and swam as fast as I could and my color just comes with the territory”.
She also followed fellow swimmers Amy Van Dyken and Missy Franklin as the only American women to win as many as four golds in a single Olympics.
For Team USA, the gold didn’t stop flowing there.
Ledecky easily qualified first in the 800 freestyle, with an Olympic-record time of 8 minutes, 12.86 seconds. Bronte was second at the flip and slid to fourth at the finish. It will certainly be an exciting event that viewers will not want to miss out on. “I just let my imagination run away with me a little bit”.
One of the blue ribbon events of the track cycling competition at Rio 2016 will see reigning world champions Australia up against reigning Olympic champions Great Britain.
Various high-profile names won’t be attending the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio due to concerns over the Zika virus. Now, improbably, he’s back on the top of the podium again.
Murphy became the third American man in the last five Olympics to take both races. “That was a real breakthrough for me to be able to win that one”.
Bradley Wiggins slowly dismounted his track bike for the final time, basking in the cheers of an adoring crowd, and was greeted by two of the most decorated Olympians in British history. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the two-time defending Olympic champion, is also in the field.
Gold is on his mind as Michael Phelps looks for his 22nd Olympic medal of that color in the 200-meter individual medley at the Rio Olympics.
There will be few better stories of triumph from adversity at these Games than Anthony Ervin, who won gold in the 50m freestyle 16 years after achieving the same feat at the 2000 Games in Sydney.
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Twenty-two races, including the first two medal races, were postponed in the regatta but worldwide rowing federation director Matt Smith said there’s still room on the schedule without having to resort to drastic measures even if competition is also called off.
