Phelps wound up in a three-way tie for silver along with two longtime rivals, Chad le Clos of South Africa and Laszlo Cseh of Hungary.
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Phelps told NBC that he’d had “probably about five hours” of sleep the night before the qualifying round, admitting that he was “a little exhausted, but as long as I’m not sore, it’s good”.
“If it wasn’t for Michael, I don’t think I could have gotten to this point”.
Ervin won his first gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, tying teammate Gary Hall Jr. for the top spot.
Both Ledecky’s and Phelps’ races came after a contest that saw the continuing breakthrough of American Maya DiRado, who won gold in the women’s 200-meter backstroke at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Barra’s Olympic Park. I’m standing by that. “But I’m accepting it”. Going into the first race you don’t really know how it’s going to be. 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. He’s scheduled to swim in the 4×100-meter medley relay, in which he helped the U.S.to gold in 2012.
Schooling actually met Phelps for the first time in 2008 when the future Longhorn was a star-struck 13-year-old. “That was a great race”.
Phelps, 31, insists he won’t be back for a sixth Olympics. “No, I’m not. But I’ll just say that”, Phelps said to reporters while answering a question about his son Boomer being able to see him compete in Rio.
Nonetheless, the 100 butterfly set up as one of his most hard events of the week.
Le Clos, who lost his 200m butterfly title to Phelps on Tuesday, failed in his bid to turn the tables but was happy not to have been beaten by him again either. I need it to sink in.
Singaporeans erupted on social media Saturday morning as Schooling dominated the men’s 100m butterfly with a time of 50.39 seconds, clinching not just the gold medal but also setting an Olympic record.
Sixteen-year-old Sean McMahon began swimming 8 years ago, the same year that Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals in Beijing.
“There’s nothing I can do”, Phelps said after Friday’s race. She and Michael got engaged in February 2015 after 8 years of dating on and off. “I’m sorry if I don’t seem like I’m full of emotions right now”.
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Even more impressive: every four years, the races apparently took place on the very same day.
