While there may have been fewer golds, “Super Saturday” in Rio proved just as successful for Team GB as that magical night at the London 2012 Olympics.
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Stanford swimmer Simone Manuel shared the gold medal with sixteen-year old Canadian Penny Oleksiak in a 100-meter freestyle final that shocked the swimming world.
Emerging Jamaica superstar Elaine Thompson edged closer to bagging herself a second gold at the Rio 2016 Olympics on Monday after she finished second in her heat to automatically advance through to the women’s 200-metre semi-final.
Great Britain won five golds and three silvers on Sunday – as well as another gold which will formally be confirmed on Tuesday to add to the tally which has taken the team above China in the medal table.
Along with Kocian’s silver and Simone Biles’ gold on vault Sunday, the USA also got a bronze from Alex Naddour on the pommel horse.
Phelps took the lead in the third leg, the butterfly, before Nathan Adrian maintained it during the last leg as the United States won ahead of Britain and Australia.
Coming into the games, we didn’t hear much about Manuel and instead focused on the other Simone, the gymnast who has a chance of winning a record five gold medals in the Olympics, but it’s Manuel who has had a surprising impact.
The women’s doubles podium was complete when Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova – who began the tournament by knocking out three-time women’s doubles gold medalists Venus and Serena Williams – won the all-Czech bronze medal match in straight sets.
China has suffered “the worst Olympic flop” at the 2016 Rio games, the country’s official news agency claimed on Wednesday, as frustration grew at Team China’s failure to replicate its past glories in Brazil.
It was the fifth gold medal of these Games for Phelps and his 28th overall. I just don’t know what happened.
Laura Trott became the first British female to win three titles at the Games after world record team pursuit win gold.
Whatever the real number, the US will be the first to reach four figures – in a landslide.
“Most nations invest in two- or four-year projects; we invest in athletes and coaches and support staff in eight-year pathways”, he said.
Justin Gatlin of the USA, considered Bolt’s main rival for the gold medal, recorded the fastest time of the heats with 10.01 seconds. “I don’t carry it with me”. Finals are at 10:50 a.m. and Piotr Malachowski, of Poland, Philip Milanov, Belgium, and Christoph Harting, Germany, are favorites to medal.
“There is no wrong or right”, Mallon said. Officially, they lasted for almost five months, had a marathoner disqualified for using a vehicle on the route, another marathoner likely miss a medal because he ate rotten apples on the course and stopped for a nap, saw gymnast George Eyser win six medals despite having a wooden leg and featured events such as dumbbells and tug-of-war. Though unlike the St. Louis Games two years earlier, this had more of a normal Olympic program.
Christa Dietzen, of Hampton, and the USA women’s indoor volleyball team will take on China Sunday afternoon.
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“We’ve enjoyed a successful first week and it’s a nice position to be in, but there is a huge amount of work still to be done”, said UK Sport’s director of performance Simon Timson.
