Coming off the 20th and 21st gold medals of his career, Michael Phelps wasn’t up for any hardware.
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Phelps will look to win the men’s 200m individual medley for an incredible fourth successive Games while Lochte, so often the bridesmaid, finally tries to get one over on his fellow American.
Katie Ledecky was the fastest swimmer in the pool, and she brought her American teammates along for the ride.
In rugby sevens, Fiji goes against surprising Japan and South Africa faces Great Britain, all trying to get to the evening’s gold-medal match.
His final opportunity in the Olympic Aquatics Stadium pool comes Thursday in his favorite event against his favorite rival – the 200 individual medley with Phelps.
USA swimmers Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Katie Ledecky, Missy Franklin and Nathen Adrian will all be back in the pool on Wednesday. She’s the world-record holder and defending Olympic champion in the 800 free.
Medals also will be awarded in the women’s 200 meter breaststroke, the women’s 100 meter freestyle and in the men’s 200 meter backstroke. They’ll meet one more time.
After the formalities of Wednesday’s semi-finals, both swimmers indulged in some sweet-talk before their last dance in Rio.
Golf tees off for the first time at the Olympics since 1904 as the men start their first round of play at the Olympic Golf Course – although the top four players in the world won’t be competing because of Zika fears.
The first tee shot will be struck by Brazilian Adilson da Silva, who learned to play using tree branches for clubs.
The United States have now won gold in four of the five Olympics in which the event has been on the schedule.
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“It would be great to have gold”, said Adrian, who barely advanced out of the preliminaries but almost pulled off the first back-to-back titles in the 100 since Pieter van den Hoogenband in 2000 and 2004. She celebrated with her teammates Allison Schmitt, 26, Leah Smith, 21, Maya Dirado, 23, after a nail-biting race that saw the US lagging behind other countries until Katie obliterated the competition with her breathtaking swim.
