Madeline Dirado of the United States won bronze.
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She eclipsed the previous record of 4:28.43 set by China’s Ye Shiwen en route to gold in London four years ago – where Hosszu was relegated to fourth.
After Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu won gold and set an eye-popping world record in the 400-meter individual medley, NBC’s Dan Hicks described Hosszu’s husband, Shane Tusup, as the “man responsible” for her win.
Italy won the most fencing medals at London 2012 with three golds and seven in total, and will likely be strong contenders again. “Coming into Rio, I wanted to take it like any other meet”.
Meanwhile, Sun Yang became the first Chinese to win a 200m gold as he completed a golden Olympic treble.
Jessica Hardy, an Olympic medalist who used to train with Hosszu in Los Angeles wrote in the New York Times about being subjected to verbal and emotional abuse as a child, said, ‘I’ve seen a lot of inappropriate and not-O.K. behavior in Shane’.
Ryan Murphy won the men’s 100 backstroke gold on Monday to extend the USA run of domination in the event to six successive Games dating back to Atlanta in 1996.
Australia’s women retained their Olympic title by winning the 4x100m freestyle relay in world record time, with sisters Bronte and Cate Campbell swimming the last two stages to overhaul the United States, despite the efforts of Katie Ledecky on the anchor leg. “I just tried to dig the last 50”. This means everything to me.
O’Connor, just 20 years old, was competing in her first Olympics ever.
Having threatened to break the mark in the heats, she was a gaping 5.25 seconds under record pace when she entered the final freestyle leg with the crowd roaring her on.
Even NBC’s official Olympics Twitter account encouraged women to “find someone who loves you the way Katinka Hosszu’s husband loves her”.
“It just proves that you can compete clean and still come out on top”, King said.
Her response has been equally defiant in the face of some not-so-veiled suggestions that her improvement since London – and her ability to maintain gruelling individual meet schedules – are not due exclusively to hard work. Vande Velde noted ahead of time that American rider Mara Abbott, who had a large lead but was caught at the end, was better on the mountains than the level course where the race concluded.
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“I would have been OK grabbing any color”, she said.
