Two months ago you weren’t even in the Olympics, now you have this little decoration, a gold medal.
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Elsewhere Simone Biles will go for the first Olympic gold of her already trophy-laden gymnastics career as the United States bid to defend their team title.
Phelps is the most decorated Olympian and captured his 23rd Olympic medal Monday evening in the Men’s 400 freestyle relay. “There are some weeks where I train upwards of 25 hours a week and I really never had a serious injury in all these years”, she said. “I had to fight back some tears myself”.
“I guess I got to sleep at 3 a.m. and I was on an 11 a.m. bus”.
As reported by Yahoo News, Phelps achieved the second position, while Le Clos came in third in the semi-final event.
Ledecky, on the other hand, cruised into the final as the second-fastest qualifier, with a time of 1 minute, 54.81 seconds – almost 3 seconds faster than Franklin. But the internet was much more interested in what Phelps did prior to the race.
The last British man to win an Olympic swimming gold was Adrian Moorhouse in the same event in 1988, six years before Peaty was born.
Then it was back on the bus for a return trip to his room and an afternoon nap.
But one thing we can explain is why he is sporting purple dots on his skin while competing in the Summer Games.
“I’m finishing well”, he said. “I was planning on sleeping until about 10, but I woke up around 8:30 and just stayed up. I’m really focusing on making sure I’m doing everything I can to be the best I can be right now”. “I just did a time he hasn’t done in four years, so he can keep quiet now”. “Once I get going, it’s kind of hard to stop”.
Now, it’s Ledecky who is poised to be the biggest women’s star in Rio. That’s the fastest I’ve been in prelims in a while.
MR. TRAUTWIG REGRETS: NBC gymnastics announcer Al Trautwig said Monday he regretted saying on Twitter that the adoptive parents of US gymnast Simone Biles were not her parents.
Popular among swimmers and other athletes in this Olympics, it is a technique used to open blood vessels and enhance blood flow.
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She topped the 200 individual medley heats with a time of 2:07.45.
