Even though the big story was Phelps’ 23rd gold medal (28th overall), Ryan Murphy also set a new backstroke world record in the first leg of the race. Scott Durant, Tom Ransley, Andrew Triggs Hodge, Matt Gotrel, Pete Reed, Paul Bennett, Matt Langridge, William Satch and cox Phelan Hill produced an exceptional race, following up the women’s silver by topping the podium in the final race.
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Becky James won her first Olympic medal with silver in the Keirin.
Andrew Fisher, a Jamaican who competes for Bahrain, Jamaican Yohan Blake, Americans Marvin Bracy and Trayvon Bromell and Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre also qualified for the semis.
The U.S. women’s 400-meter medley relay team of Kathleen Baker, Lilly King, Simone Manuel and Dana Vollmer today made history by securing the 1,000th gold medal for Team USA at the Olympic Games in summer competition. Bolt has won seven gold medals in his Olympic career.
Recent medals tally posted in the official NBC Olympics website put Team U.S. firmly in the lead with 69 medals followed by China with a total of 45 and Great Britain with 38. Jamaica has just three total medals in Rio, but Bolt should help change that when he runs the men’s 200-meter on Tuesday and the men’s 4×100-meter relay on Thursday.
Britain could have two medals to celebrate at the gymnastics as the men’s pommel horse final at 7.30pm pits Max Whitlock against Louis Smith.
CNN International reported how the 19-year-old all-around American gymnast was able to bag three out of five gold medals on the second day of the three-day finals in the gymnastics event in Rio 2016. Play begins at 7 a.m. on the way to the awarding of golf’s first Olympic medals since 1904.
With gold medals in eight different events, Stanford is now the fourth-ranked “country” in the world.
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Matches now feature two 3-minute periods with cumulative scoring, a move created to stop wrestlers from sitting on a lead as they often did under the old best-of-three format.
