“We’re swimming a lot better than at trials, and that means our plan really worked and we spent a lot of time on that”.
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Singapore’s chef de mission Low Teo Ping told Channel News Asia that most people were expecting Phelps to score his 23rd gold medal at the race, but “here we have this boy from Singapore who really disappointed them, and we are all ecstatic”.
Simone Manuel of the United States and 16-year-old Penny Oleksiak of Canada tied for the gold medal in the women’s 100-meter freestyle, upsetting world-record holder Cate Campbell. Le Clos suggested they hold hands before they ascend the podium, and so they did, pride aside and smiles abundant.
From lane six, he had time to look left four times to check out his opposition and then coasted across the line.
“That was a really tough race and it hurt really badly”, Ledecky said. I felt great before the race…
The 19-year-old from suburban Washington capped off one of the greatest performances in Olympic history with her fourth gold medal and second world record, shattering her own mark in the 800-meter freestyle Friday night.
“A three-way tie is pretty wild”, Phelps said. I told him to go four more years.
Phelps, who now has 27 Olympic medals, had been hoping to win the event for the fourth successive Games but his Midas touch deserted him and he had to settle for another colour medal for the first time in Rio.
Others to watch include Elaine Thompson of Jamaica, Murielle Ahoure of the Ivory Coast, Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands and Americans English Gardner, Tianna Bartoletta and Tori Bowie.
CLOSE CALLS: Rafael Nadal, the singles champion at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and Spain teammate Marc Lopez won the men’s doubles title.
DiRado beat out another star of these games – Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu – at the wall after taking the lead in the closing lengths.
If she wins the final on Friday, Ledecky will become the first swimmer since Debbie Meyer in 1968 to sweep the 200, 400 and 800 freestyles.
Phelps was at a low point after getting his second DUI arrest and suffering through a failed relationship.
-Brazil’s government declared a day of official mourning for a Rio Olympics police officer who died after being shot in the head making a wrong turn into one of the city’s slums.
“So it’s kind of special and a decent way to finish my last race”.
The 200 may be the shortest race of the bunch but it’s definitely the hardest for Ledecky, requiring her to show both her speed and endurance against a far more competitive field.
USA swimmers Maya DiRado and Missy Franklin advanced to Thursday night’s semifinals for the women’s 200-meter backstroke, posting the third and 11th fastest times, respectively.
There’s a chance these players – 60 men this week, 60 women next week – might never see this golf course again unless the PGA Tour stages a big event in South America down the road and picks Rio. He fell two-hundredths of a second short of a spot in the semifinals. Adrian, bronze medalist in the 100 free on Wednesday, touched in 21.61. It’s won a third of all Olympic swimming medals ever awarded. Then, Ervin walked away from swimming, skipping the next two Olympics while he embarked on a journey to find his objective in life.
The U.S. women’s eight rowers have won every world championship and Olympic gold since 2006, and they’re the heavy favorites to win gold in Rio.
She’s already got a job lined up in Atlanta after the Olympics and made it clear she would be retiring no matter the results.
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“This whole day has been kind of insane because it’s all of these little last things that I’ve gotten to do, like my last warmup with the girls at the training pool”, DiRado said.
