The gold medal hanging around her neck says it all.
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Outside of Phelps, the prevailing story line among the men is. just what color exactly is Lochte’s hair? After 16 Olympic appearances, the tiny island nation earn its first medal.
Douglas was attempting to become the first repeat all-around victor in almost 50 years.
Biles, who already owns the most worldwide competition medals of any female gymnast ever with 16 (12 gold), has three other remaining events to compete in this year’s Olympics. “I understand (Junias) has been released and he is free to compete and he has not been found guilty of anything yet”, Andrada said. As Olympic champion, she’s now part of a proud lineage that traces from Nadia Comaneci to Mary Lou Retton to Gabby Douglas. Though her tricks are so hard they defy the laws of both gravity and physics, she did them with the effort and lightness of the little girl who once delighted in doing back handsprings for a home video.
Victory kept Biles, three time all-around world champion, on track for a record five women’s golds with vault, beam and floor finals to come.
“I had to tell her to stop, because I knew I’d start crying”.
Shortly after that, Ann-Katrin Thiele, Carina Bär, Julia Lier and Lisa Schmidla followed suit, improving on the country’s silver medal in the event at the London Games. “I wasn’t concerned with anything else”.
Friday’s high-stakes court appearance was the latest twist in 33-year-old Van Gelder’s turbulent sports career which, alongside his world title, has also featured a ban for cocaine use.
Since the event was introduced to the Olympic program in 1952 only Soviet Union duo Larisa Latynina (1960) and Ludmilla Tourischeva (1972), Czech Vera Caslavska (1968) and Ukraine’s Lilia Podkopayeva (1996) have bagged the double.
Nathan Adrian and his U.S swim team co-captain Anthony ErvIn both qualified in the 50-meter freestyle semi-finals. Maybe one day Biles will make them reconsider.
Murray, the second seed, eventually won 6-1 2-6 6-3 and is hoping to become the first player ever to defend an Olympic singles title.
Biles has spent the last three years dominating her sport, winning 15 world championships. Biles earned the first one on Tuesday while serving as the exclamation point to retiring national team coordinator Martha Karolyi’s going away party.
Biles said earlier in the event that Manuel was “an awesome person”, and it appears to be a friendship to last. The 22-year-old tied for third place in the 2012 Olympics, only to be pushed to fourth and miss out on a medal due to a tie-breaker rule.
With numerous top names in golf opting out of Rio, citing Zika and security concerns, the field has been left wide open for lesser-known players like Fraser, who took a three-stroke lead at the end of the opening round.
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For just the second time in Olympics swimming history, a dead heat.
