CBC announcer gets Phelps, Lochte mixed up during 200m IM final

“Every chance I get on those blocks and he’s right there, it’s incredible”, Lochte said of Phelps, who was in the adjacent lane.

In a WJZ Baltimore TV interview recorded half his lifetime ago, 15-year old Phelps talked about how cool it would be to become a champion.

Swimming in his tightest race of the 2016 Olympics on Friday night, Phelps suffered his first Olympic defeat in the 100-meter butterfly, an event he’s won the three previous Games.

That victory, the 13th individual triumph of his Olympics career, meant he surpassed the greatest athlete of ancient Greece and indeed of the Games – Leonidas of Rhodes.

During their broadcast of the men’s 200m individual medley that featured the final showdown between Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps, CBC announcer Elliotte Friedman got his lanes mixed up.

Perhaps in another 2,000 years the stories of Phelps and his exploits will be shared around the table given his astonishing record.

Fellow American swimmer Ryan Lochte, however, said those races where Phelps seeks to add to his record 22-gold medal haul may not be his last.

Phelps would go on to win the gold in the event.

He won the stadion sprint (equivalent to the 200 meters), the diaulos (equivalent to the 400 meters), and the hoplitodromos, (200 meters while wearing a helmet and holding shield) in all four Olympics he competed in.

Manuel and Phelps both got emotional on the medal podium when the national anthem played.

Phelps, who now has 27 Olympic medals, had been hoping to win the event for the fourth successive Games but his Midas touch deserted him and he had to settle for another color medal for the first time in Rio.

Phelps’ mother, Debbie, sounded bullish on her son competing in what would be his sixth Olympics where he’d be 35 years old.

Wiggins, the Tour de France victor four years ago, will retire with eight Olympics medals, five of them gold.

On the medal stand, though, she finally broke down in tears.

“I sense as well that among the players at home – being pretty quiet on the social media – some would like to be here, and there’s no doubt they are missing out”, Harrington said. The winning time was 50.39 seconds.

The most decorated athlete in Olympic history couldn’t pull off one of his patented comebacks in the 100-meter butterfly, easily held off by a swimmer a decade younger.

The Pacific Island nation of Fiji erupted into celebration after its rugby sevens team defeated Britain 43-7 to capture the country’s first Olympic medal.

Leonidas won all his titles in just four Olympics. And she’ll swim at 10:44 p.m.in the women’s 50 free finals, for which she qualified Friday.

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“It was always going to be hard to find two weeks in the middle of the summer”, Stenson said. “It turned out that way”.

Australia’s Mitch Larkin grabbed the silver in 1:53.96, just ahead of Russia’s Evgeny Rylov with the bronze in 1:53.97.

China’s Shi Jinglin took the bronze in 2:28.28.

“I’m delighted”, she told reporters.

The world’s top four players – Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy – skipped the Rio Games because of Zika fears and safety concerns.