Katie Ledecky, who reset the world record that she had set in the women’s 400-meter freestyle Monday by nearly two seconds, will be in for a tough fight for gold against fellow multiple world record holder Sweden’s Sarah Sjöström in the women’s 200-meter freestyle at 9:19 p.m.
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1n 2014 at the Athens Games Li won the gold medals in air rifle and Beijing four years later she won the 3-position Rifle. Michael Phelps, who gave the team the lead swimming a fast second leg, earned his 19th gold medal as the most decorated athlete in Olympic history. The final race will be held Tuesday night. King backed up her words by setting a new Olympic record in the event with a time of 1:04.93. Earlier, Sweden’s Sara Sjostrom broke the world record in the women’s event.
With a Finals performance for the ages, teenage phenom Ginny Thrasher set the table by winning the first golden medal of the 2016 Olympic Game in Rio de Janeiro.
The Chinese men’s gymnastics team fell in dramatic fashion to Japan after winning the team competition in each of the past two Olympic Games.
Ledecky will have another chance to win gold Wednesday in the 4×200-meter relay, where she is expected to anchor. Two members of the team, Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas, were members of the team that won gold in 2012 and were then dubbed the Fierce Five.
“While gold is still needed to boost morale, we also need to challenge and surpass ourselves”, said the post on China’s Twitter-like Weibo service, which was shared close to 12,000 times. The United States finished fifth. Thrasher had always dreamed of being a figure skater, dancing and twirling to music, something she competed in through high school.
U.S. swimmer, Ryan Murphy said, “I had no idea, I couldn’t see much other than the splashes”. In 2011, Muhammad became the first female Muslim athlete to represent the United States.
Ginny Thrasher of the United States competes in the 10m Air Rifle Women’s Finals on Day 1 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Shooting Centre on August 6, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.
Team USA continues to collect medals in Rio ahead in the overall and gold medal competitions thanks to some Olympic newcomers in the gym and some veterans in the pool.
But the country’s leaders have urged its citizens to ditch the obsession with gold medals, saying that it encourages corruption in sports, especially within soccer which has been hit by match-fixing scandals. USA Shooting’s mission is to prepare American athletes to win Olympic medals, promote the shooting sports throughout the US and govern the conduct of worldwide shooting in the country.
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Australia’s men’s team is 2-0 after a 95-80 win over Serbia.
