Elsewhere, US judoka Kayla Harrison won back-to-back Olympic titles in women’s 78kg event. The 31-year-old legend will compete in the Men’s 100m butterfly final, closing the book on a phenomenal Olympic career.
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It’s the historic call broadcasters dream about while covering the Olympics – but one commentator is apologizing Thursday after apparently mixing up the swimming lanes.
“We bring out the best in each other”, he said. “I only have to put a racing suit on two more times and I only have to warm down one more time”.
Chen came fourth just 0.09 seconds behind bronze medalist Dana Vollmer of the United States.
Phelps had no time to relish his result; he had to return to the pool roughly 30 minutes later for the semifinals of the 100 butterfly, the other event where he is the three-time defending champion.
At some Monday night practice in middle school, a coach decided that on Saturday’s meet I would swim the 200m IM – a brand new event for me at a distance I had never competed in.
“Things started hitting me this morning”, he said.
It’s the first time an Olympic swimmer has won four consecutive gold medals, and Phelps, who waved four fingers in the air after his win, admitted in an interview afterwards that “when the announcer said that, I had a really hard time pulling it together”. Valent Sinkovic won Olympic rowing gold with his brother Martin and he expects their father’s celebrations to last a while. Cate was under her own world-record pace at the turn, but had nothing coming back and fell all the way to sixth.
The most decorated Olympian of all-time with 26 medals made a mockery of suggestions that he would struggle to cope with teammate Ryan Lochte and Japan’s Hagino.
“I couldn’t help who was here”.
While Phelps raced to roars in Rio, in his hometown of Baltimore, his showdown with Lochte was shown on the giant video board during a break in the fourth quarter of the Ravens’ preseason game against the Carolina Panthers. “I’m happy for him”, Lochte said. It’s just how you handle it.
The 200-meter individual medley field was chasing Michael Phelps, who was trying with every freestyle stroke to pass Leonidas of Rhodes. Murphy finished in 1:53.62, a third of a second ahead of Australia’s Mitchell Larkin.
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“I saw Simone’s name and I thought I came second, then I saw “Olympic record” by both names and I thought: ‘That’s insane, no one ties at the Olympics'”.
