49-year-old Fehaid Aldeehani usually competes for Kuwait, but due to a complications with the Kuwaiti Olympic Federation, all Kuwaiti athletes are competing independently in Rio.
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A mourning ritual was being held Tuesday at the home of Sinphet Kruithong, whose grandmother was among scores of family and friends watching his event live on a big television screen set up for the occasion in his village in northeastern Thailand. However, most medalists probably care far more about the symbolism of the medal than what it’s made of. We recently achieved Investors in People silver status, which is fantastic, but we are already targeting gold next time.
American Lilly King won a trash-talking duel with Russian Yulia Efimova for the gold medal in the 100-meter breaststroke on Monday night, the US men’s basketball team surged after a slow start, beating Venezuela 113-69, and Serena Williams struggled before beating France’s Alize Cornet 7-6 (5), 6-2 in her bid for a second consecutive singles gold medal.
American swimming star Katie Ledecky smashed her own world record in the 400 meter freestyle event Sunday at the Rio Olympic Games. “You never know the feeling until it hits you”, said Biles, who became the first reigning world champion in the women’s individual all-around to claim the Olympic title in the same event since 1996, when Lilia Podkopayeva from Ukraine triumphed.
AL.com added that Olympic medal winners of every color, not just gold, also walk away with financial compensation after the Olympic Games are over.
Kazakhstan’s Dmitriy Balandin (gold cap) was the most surprising gold medalist on day five, winning the Men’s 200m Breaststroke from lane 8.
While it’s predicted that the USA team will reign supreme in Rio this year, China garnered a (relatively distant) second place before the final day of competition.
China, Japan, Italy, and the US are four of the wealthiest countries competing in Rio. How hard will it be? The end result was a fifth place finish, which matched the team’s disappointing result in 2012.
Fencing, women’s foil: Gold went to Inna Deriglazova of Russian Federation, beating Elisa di Francisca, the victor of this even from four years ago, 12-11 in the final.
Brazilian soccer fans have found a new team to cheer – their women.
Swimming: The pools will be busy again in Rio Tuesday. This year in Rio, a particular spotlight has been trained at the Olympics 2016 medals cost especially with the economic and political crisis Brazil is undergoing. In 2011, Muhammad became the first female Muslim athlete to represent the United States.
Based on these high figures, a 500g medal made of pure gold would set the International Olympic Committee back a whopping $22,000 per medal.
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The medal haul continued with reigning Olympic champion Dana Vollmer to earn the bronze medal in the 100 butterfly.
