Though he managed to win six medals in London, four of them gold, he had not trained to his standards, had not been as engaged in the pursuit as he was in 2004 and 2008, when he became an Olympic legend. Her three golds are the most by an American female gymnast during one Olympics.
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If that was the end, and Phelps insists it is, what a way to go out.
As Adrian touched the wall to finish off the victory, Phelps gathered the other relay swimmers, Ryan Murphy and Cody Miller, in his arms. One night after his only setback of the games, an upset loss to Joseph Schooling in the 100 fly, Phelps was back on top.
The new dad wants to challenge himself in other ways and wants to focus on his 3-month-old baby boy, Boomer, and fiancée, Nicole Johnson. “I had my goals in the water, but one of those goals was also just to have fun, and I couldn’t have asked for a better time here with my teammates”. His drink-driving arrest in 2014 and the birth of his first child, son Boomer, earlier this year only reinforced that notion.
Katie Ledecky, 19, leads the pack after living up to outlandish expectations by winning four gold medals and smashing two world records.
“(Phelps has) had a huge impact on.a lot of the young swimmers on the team this year, ” Ledecky said in an exclusive interview on TODAY Monday. Katinka Hosszu recalled Hungary’s long swimming tradition with three individual golds, Oleksiak spearheaded a Canadian resurgence and breaststroker Adam Peaty twice blasted the 100m breaststroke world record as Britain secured their biggest medal haul in the pool since 1984.
Phelps dove into the pool in second place.
It wasn’t in doubt after that. Britain held on for silver, with Australia nabbing bronze.
Gaines: “I know, he was on my couch for a while”.
Coming off a thrilling double-overtime win against rival Brazil, Argentina wraps up pool play against Spain.
On the men’s side, Rafael Nadal was toppled by Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina, ending his bid for a second Olympic singles gold medal. At age 15 at the 2012 London Olympics she surprisingly won the women’s 800-meter freestyle. The U.S. has been leading the gold medal count since the beginning, with a total of 70 gold medals, which is partly due to Phelps.
The U.S. also won 33 medals at Sydney in 2000.
The Jamaican great defeated American rival Justin Gatlin by.08 seconds for his seventh Olympic gold medal. The outing was several hours after Olympic swimming ended Saturday night at the Rio Games.
Van Niekerk, 24, leaned at the finish line, which he really didn’t need to do as Kirani James of Grenada and LaShawn Merritt of the Unites States weren’t even in the picture.
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Bolt won his record-setting third straight title and his seventh Olympic gold, beating American Justin Gatlin, who was greeted with raucous boos, by.08 seconds. Russian world champion boxer Evgeny Tishchenko faces Kazakhstan’s Vassilliy Levit, while Cuban wrestler Mijian Lopez takes on Turkey’s Riza Kayaalp.
