First he tied an ancient sports record at the Rio Olympics.
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Travis Stevens won silver in Judo and bronze medal winners included Phillip Dutton, Individual eventing (equestrian) and Maya Dirado, Women’s 200m individual medley (swimming). She swam the 16-lap event in 8 minutes, 12.86 seconds Thursday, bettering the old mark of 8:14.10 set by Rebecca Adlington of Britain in 2008. Only two athletes, discus thrower Al Oerter and long jumper Carl Lewis, ever have managed the feat.
Phelps is eager to spend a lot more time with them.
The frenetic finishes in the swimming pool capped a day that included a big escape by the US men’s basketball team and a stunning loss by the women’s soccer squad. With an easy win in his 100-meter heat, backed up by the trademark showmanship, he did not disappoint his crowd.
The comeback endured a huge setback with his second drunken-driving arrest in 2014, which led to Phelps being banned from the world championships the following year.
“I hit all my goals right on the nose this week”, she said. And even then, the only event that I will make it a point to watch is the men’s 100m final. “But I’d like to have those extra seven, eight minutes in between”. Hernandez pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the Olympics’ first three days on Monday night with a unanimous decision over Russia’s Vasilii Egorov, the European champion and runner-up at last year’s world championships.
“I will be in Tokyo”, he said.
Four years ago the ear-splitting roar from a packed house that greeted home favorite Jess Ennis as she began her ultimately glorious quest for heptathlon glory was one of the iconic moments of the London Games.
Katie Ledecky, with 200m and 400m free gold secured, vies to complete her treble in the 800m freestyle and the signs are more than good for the reigning Olympic champion and world record-holder. Actually, those are just the gusts from the air conditioning vents: They’re cold and they’re strong and they could pose a problem for some of the best. Others making the final were Jazz Carlin of Britain, American Leah Smith, Lotte Friis of Denmark and Mireia Belmonte Garcia of Spain, who won the 200 butterfly on Wednesday.
Men will swim for the gold in the 50 free at 10:44 p.m. Helped by funding from Ukraine’s meager sports budget, Hovorov is in position to win swimming’s glamour event.
“I try not to think about the history much”, Ledecky said.
If there’s one race that’s a lock in this Olympic meet, let’s go with the women’s 800-metre freestyle race in which preliminary heats will be contested on Thursday. Adrian was third in 21.49. Gabby Douglas, the Olympic all-around champion in 2012, is also in the final, as is defending Olympic uneven bars champion Aliya Mustafina of Russian Federation.
It’s the final day of swimming at the Rio Olympics and four gold medals are up for grabs.
The superstar lineup Friday includes Katinka Hosszu of Hungary going in the 200 backstroke at 10:03 p.m. Bronze went to Canada’s Hilary Caldwell.
The pair’s powerful performances came on a day the Rio Games turned aside the disconcerting lime-like waters at the aquatics center and toward the emerald green fairways as golf returned to the Olympics for the first time in 112 years.
Women take to the track for the 400 semifinals starting at 8:35 p.m. Shaunae Miller, of the Bahamas, has the fastest time in the event this year. Michael Phelps won the gold medal. He’s won 13 individual golds, and he’s still got the 100 butterfly on Friday and the medley relay on Saturday. The USA would like to have three in the final (English Gardner, Tori Bowie, Tianna Bartoletta) where they will face two-time defending champ Shelly-Ann Frayser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson of Jamaica and Dafne Schippers of Netherlands.
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