Phelps said he was texting with a friend who updated him on the Baltimore score before he went out for his race.
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This time, she was limited to a single gold, which came for swimming the preliminaries of the 4×200 freestyle relay.
“I guess I just didn’t have it tonight”, he said.
Sakai was beaten out by Phelps in this year’s 200-meter butterfly by just four hundredths of a second.
Ten minutes before the race began, Phelps, 31, and Lochte, 32, could be seen in the waiting area as a medal ceremony was performed at poolside for an earlier race. During the medal ceremony that followed, Phelps showed more of the emotion that we saw from him after he won his 25th medal, two days ago.
A little more than half-an-hour later, having collected his gold medal, Phelps returned to qualify fifth fastest for Friday’s 100m butterfly final – another event he won in Athens, Beijing and London.
In total, there would be 10 different gold medal winners in the individual events that Phelps dominated and 16 new medallists who previously missed the podium in prior Olympics, including Italy’s Alessio Boggiatto, who twice finished fourth in the 400-meter individual medley since Phelps started competing in the event in 2004. You certainly don’t want to miss his wonderful swimming performance and also to find out if he adds another gold medal to his collection. – Men’s volleyball Group A, Brazil vs. U.S. The relay gold that night was the eighth USA medal.
The American has more Olympic medals than anybody else.
After a dark period in his life following his retirement from swimming and DUI arrest in 2014, Phelps has matured thanks to his family and starting one of his own with fiancee Nicole and son Boomer.
The gold is Phelps’ fourth at this Games and fourth consecutive in the 200 IM. He finished a flawless eight-for-eight in events, as he took home eight gold medals in the 2008 games.
The two spirited competitors have history spanning back some 12 years, with Phelps winning three IM golds over that time and Lochte taking four straight world championships. Rio marks the first time rugby has been played at the Olympics since 1924. He has been involved in controversies such as being photographed holding a bong, and he is now a father with the birth of his son Boomer.
Both have already made Olympic history.
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The 200-meter freestyle is not an event in which Ledecky overwhelms. It would give him his 15th individual medal and sole possession of first place. An identity beyond that of the most decorated Olympian ever.
