Early Sunday morning, the U.S. women’s swimming relay team of Lilly King, Simone Manuel, Dana Vollmer and Kathleen Baker won the 4×100-meter medley final.
Advertisement
Given Murray’s class few may have been stunned by him retaining the Olympic title he won four years ago, but this was one achievement in a day of stunning sport.
Speaking just before Sunday afternoon’s flurry of golds, Team GB chef de mission Mark England said: “The mood at the momentum in the camp back at the athletes’ village is just fantastic”.
If the USA women had not captured the landmark medal, Michael Phelps and the men’s 4×100 medley relay squad would have done so.
Russian Federation on 30 medals (9 Gold, 11 Silver, 10 Bronze), followed by Germany on 17 medals (8 Gold, 5 Silver, 4 Bronze) rounded up the fourth and fifth spot respectively.
Australia took the silver medal in a time of 3:55.00 and Denmark rounded out the podium with bronze medals, 0.01 seconds behind Australia. Bolt is the 100m Olympic champion in his third straight Olympics. “I’m glad that me going out there and having fun is inspiring others”. “I thought about all my hard work and that it could all be gone in a minute”. The pair will take on Brazil in the women’s semifinal Tuesday night. “What a privilege it was to see British athletes competing and performing and winning on the world stage in the way that they did”, he told Today. She swam a 53.32 in her qualifying heat and 53.11 in the semifinals.
Cyclist Jason Kenny added further gloss by winning the men’s sprint in an all-British final against Callum Skinner to win his second gold medal of the Games.
But now that the competition is in full swing, the Olympic Games are attracting viewers, who in turn are enjoying some wonderful athletic feats.
Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky & Co. made sure the USA stayed firmly atop the swimming world.
There is plenty of success on the horizon in the second week of the Games, with Mo Farah red-hot favourite to claim his fourth Olympic gold medal in the 5,000m.
The U.S. women’s 4×100-meter medley relay team of Kathleen Baker, Lilly King, Dana Vollmer and Manuel – winners at the Rio Games on Saturday night – is being recognized by the U.S. Olympic Committee as delivering the nation’s 1,000th gold medal in Summer Olympics history. She stopped the clock at 3:53.13 to best Australia and China by almost two full seconds. The first swimming medal ever won by a Brazilian woman, either in the pool or open water, eased some of the sting from a disappointing performance by the pool swimmers, who failed to win a medal at their home Olympics.
“In the end you nearly couldn’t tell who had won and who had lost”, Rose said about Murray’s victory over Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro.
Advertisement
After the epic win over Juan Martin Del Potro from Britain’s favourite Scotsman, Andy Murray, Scottish Sunday may well have been the phrase on the lips of those in Britain’s most northern country.
