The relay was held 22 minutes before midnight local time, which was another aspect of Phelps’ legacy. Before stealing some moments to take rest after the tiring competition, he celebrated along with Conor Dwyer, Townley Haas and Ryan Lochte.
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Phelps wears his own MP brand made by Italian company Aqua Sphere.
Phelps said: “My body hurt a little bit” but he should be good to go for the evening semifinals. I don’t have a cap. So I handed him mine. “Going into the finish, I said, ‘If I have to take a half-stroke, I’m going to take a half-stroke”.
Michael Phelps won a gold medal on Tuesday night, which is nearly ordinary by now.
The achievements of Leonidas rely on somewhat sketchier accounts, provided much later by Philostratus the Athenian and Pausanias who hailed the runner’s 12 victories through four Olympiads.
So, the next time you see the world’s greatest athletes embracing these giant spots, just remember if it works for them it might just work for us.
Phelps got all sentimental talking to NBC about having his three-month-old son at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio.
Lochte finished second swimming in an adjacent lane to Phelps in their semifinal Wednesday.
“It’s kind of been a insane last couple days”.
Now, here he is after Michael won his 20th gold.
No victory defined Phelps’ place in history better than this one.
Kazakhstan has its first Olympic swimming medal. Chinese weightlifter Deng Wei won the women’s 63kg category with a world record after Taiwanese rival Lin Tzu-chi pulled out after failing a dope test. Phelps is seeking a fourth straight Olympic gold medal in the 200 IM. Phelps, of course, has 25 total Olympic medals, including a record 21 Olympic gold medals, but only 12 of those 21 have come from individual events, whereas the others came from relays.
And get this: Ledecky’s relay time was only one-hundredth of a second slower than her winning time in the 200 free the previous night. He took the lead at the halfway mark and had le Clos covered from the start.
In the final leg of the relay, Ledecky came from behind to beat Australia as the US won in 7:43.03. They’re not competing against each other for air time or for the public’s attention, largely because Lochte’s only swimming two events here. “Having that come to an end, it’s weird, it’s insane to think about”.
“There wasn’t a shot in hell I was losing that race and if I did I was leaving everything in the pool”.
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