This was how he really wanted to go out.
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England picked out Justin Rose’s performance in the golf as the highlight after several top golfers pulled out of the Games over fears about the Zika virus.
Totally content away from the pool.
Olympic gold medalist Nathan Adrian said the robbery will not affect the way he approaches safety or his post-competition time here. “Being able to cap it off with these Games.it’s just he flawless way to finish”, he added.
Michael Phelps won his 23rd gold medal in the 4×100 final medley relay.
If that was the end, and Phelps insists it is, the numbers are simply astonishing.
No other Olympian has more than nine gold medals.
Michael Phelps is used to being in a league of his own.
His fiancee Nicole Johnson, mother to his three-month-old son Boomer, echoed Phelps’ retirement sentiments.
“What about the 100 fly?” Twenty-four years in this sport.
While there are unknowns ahead, Phelps is confident he is bowing out at the right time.
“And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, ‘Get down, ‘ and I put my hands up, I was like ‘whatever.’ He took our money, he took my wallet – he left my cell phone, he left my credentials”.
“I felt very inspired this week, for sure”, he said.
“Maybe a bronze”, Bowman chimed in.
US women’s volleyball stars Kerry Walsh Jennings and April Ross came close to losing a match to a team from Switzerland Wednesday after they lost the second set.
The record-breaking swimmer, who has won 28 medals from five Olympic Games after making his debut in 2000, told BBC Sport he is now finished with swimming. After London, Phelps battled depression and went into rehab following a second drink-driving offence. But it also sparked a turnaround in his personal life.
But she’s going to try.
Because there has been a flurry of medals – and gold rush wasn’t just a Charlie Chaplin masterpiece in the dozen years that he ruled waters – it’s hard to give Phelps’s career the crests and troughs that every sporting career teems with.
“These games really showed his growth”, teammate Anthony Ervin said. “I think it showed in his swimming, it showed in his demeanor, and it certainly showed in his leadership on the team”.
Phelps was elected a team captain for the first time in his fifth Olympics and truly seemed to enjoy being around his fellow swimmers. But this time around he started reaching out, reaching out to other people, bringing them closer, letting that gap be bridged.
But Phelps has remained adamant that his days in the pool are finished.
He wouldn’t be for long.
It wasn’t in doubt after that.
Sim was recalling Saturday’s showdown in Rio where Schooling built a big lead and won in an Olympic record of 50.39 seconds.
Mustafina’s score of 15.900 was just a touch better than Kocian’s score of 15.833.
“A 1,000th gold for team U.S. is a nice number”, said Manuel.
The women’s quartet of Kathleen Baker, Lilly King, Simone Manuel and Dana Vollmer made history, but were made to work.
07 with Manuel adding silver to her surprise 100m gold with a time of 24.
In the men’s singles final Britain’s Andy Murray, who is trying to become the first tennis player to win two Olympic singles gold medals, is facing Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina.
The Americans completed a haul of 33 medals in the pool including 16 golds, with Australia and Hungary trailing on three golds each.
Simone Manuel comfortably anchored her team to victory, seeing off Australia in second and Denmark in third.
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With a gold medal around his neck.
