The United States’ Carli Lloyd, center, and New Zealand’s Katie Bowen, 14, vie for the ball during a Rio Olympics match at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016.
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The Olympics will kick off in Rio de Janeiro this week with the opening ceremony, which will launch the first Games to take place in Brazil – and South America.
With 22 Olympic medals, including 18 golds, Phelps is the most decorated Olympian in the history of the global showpiece.
The timing couldn’t come soon enough as Brazil expects over half a million foreign tourists to visit the country over the course of the Rio games, according to Brazil’s tourism bureau. “So that’s really good for my mindset going into this Olympics that I’m the underdog and I have to earn my spot on the podium”.
The Australian Olympic Committee announced that it had deemed the Olympic Village “uninhabitable” for its athletes.
“I said this in 2012 and he’s back”.
“I just have a weird feeling”, Lochte said.
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“I think I’m at the point where whatever is left here I will be able to turn the page and say I was able to finish my career how I wanted to and for me that’s all that matters”, he added.
