The Rio Games, the first in South America, were a 16-day spectacle that combined numerous highlight reel moments with ugly and even weird episodes that sometimes overshadowed the competitions.
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“There’s talk about a possible home-and-away series where they come and compete in the United Kingdom and we go there”, Sweeney said, adding that the Americans were providing advice on developing a British version of the U.S. Olympic trials.
Led by tournament MVP Maggie Steffens, the USA women’s water polo team became the first to successfully defend its Olympic title and the only nation to medal at each of the five Olympic Games since the sport debuted in 2000.
Bryony Page became the first British woman to win an Olympic trampoline medal by claiming silver in Rio and she was more surprised than anyone else with her success.
But memories of swimming legend Phelps and the “immortal” Bolt will linger after they set the 2016 Olympics alight.
Swimming legend Phelps, Bolt, and an array of others helped the Games rise above the taint of scandal following the exposure of state-sponsored doping in Russian Federation.
But one man bestrode the whole event, Usain Bolt signing off his extraordinary Olympic career with an unprecedented treble-treble: gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay for the third time in successive Games.
Soccer-crazed Brazil got partial payback against Germany, winning gold two years after a 7-1 World Cup final shellacking that left many in Latin America’s largest nation fuming. You’ll be all over the Tokyo Olympics in four years, and who knows?! The United States won both the first and the last gold medals of Rio – Virginia Thrasher won the women’s 10m rifle shooting event on August 6, and the US men’s basketball team, featuring NBA All-Stars, blew out Serbia 96-66 Sunday for the gold.
“There you go. I’m the greatest”, he said. At the age of 19 she obliterated her own world record in winning the 800m freestyle, uniting the 200m, 400m and 800m titles for the first time since 1968.
Not to be outdone, Cal swimmers Ryan Murphy, Anthony Ervin and Nathan Adrian all took home multiple pieces of gold medal hardware.
Everyone wants a selfie with Simone Biles’ famous smile.
A catalogue of outstanding achievements in Rio included Britain’s Mo Farah, who captured a “double double” of 5,000m and 10,000m titles.
The Fijians thrashed Team GB in the final winning by 36 points and as they were awarded their historic medals, each player knelt before Princess Anne, to the delight of the crowd.
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Scandal also struck during the Games as police seized passports, phones and computers in a raid on the Irish Olympic office, following the arrest of Irish International Olympic Committee member Patrick Hickey over an alleged black market tickets scam.
