Being able to look back at my career and say we’ve been able to accomplish everything we wanted. He plans to marry Johnson after the Olympics and said he’s eager to watch his son grow, maybe even dole out a swimming lesson or two. “I’m not swimming Masters, either, no offense to Masters”. Karmakar is the first Indian female gymnast to compete in the Olympics.
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Took a starring role, in fact. They give him that space because he is the greatest. But this time around he started reaching out, reaching out to other people, bringing them closer, letting that gap be bridged.
She posted a time of 8:04:79, which left her a leisurely 12 seconds to wait at the edge of the pool for the next competitor to arrive, silver medalist Jazz Carlin from Great Britain.
Phelps’ compatriot Ryan Murphy, who completed a personal sweep of the men’s backstroke golds with victory in the 100m and 200m events as well as the medley relay, made a bit of history of his own as he broke Aaron Peirsol’s world record in the lead-off leg of the medley relay.
He wouldn’t be for long.
On the return lap, Phelps powered through the water with his whirling butterfly stroke, surging ahead of James Guy to pass off a lead to the anchor Adrian.
It wasn’t in doubt after that. Adrian pulled away on the freestyle to win in an Olympic-record time of 3 minutes, 27.95 seconds.
In the previous race, Simone Manuel anchored the USA women’s 4x100m medley team to the 1,000th gold medal in her country’s Olympic history.
Kathleen Baker, Lilly King and Dana Vollmer joined Manuel in the historic victory, which came with a time of 3:53.13. Connor Jaeger of the United States of America took the silver, and Paltinieri’s countryman Gabriele Detti increased Italy’s joy by taking bronze in a dramatic tussle at the finish with American Jordan Wilimovsky.
“A thousandth gold for team United States of America”, said Simone Manuel, who swam the anchor leg for her second gold of the games and second medal of the night.
It was a belated celebration for Singapore’s 51st birthday, but there was more to cheer yesterday at the National Day reception hosted by the Singapore embassy in Brazil.
Blume won in 24.07 with Manuel adding silver to her surprise 100m gold with a time of 24.09 and Aliaksandra Herasimenia of Belarus, the London runner-up previously banned for doping, taking bronze.
All in all, a pretty good first 40 minutes as a 38-year-old.
World champion Gregorio Paltrinieri blazed to gold in the men’s 1,500m in the absence of defending champion Sun Yang, who crushed out in the heats blaming a cold, the Italian smashing a quality field to win in 14:34.57.
Michael Phelps became the first swimmer to win the same event at four consecutive Olympic Games.
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With a gold medal around his neck.
