US women swim for gold in freestyle relay

Lochte will be right next to him again, ranking second in 1:56.28.

The American swimmers’ 21-medal haul so far exceeds the next two teams – Australia (7) and Japan (5) – combined.

Cal athletes continued to shine Wednesday night, highlighted by Josh Prenot’s silver medal in the 200-meter breaststroke and Nathan Adrian’s bronze in the 100 freestyle.

Franklin will get a gold medal for this relay – her first medal of the Rio Games – because she swam in prelims.

As for the other medal events on the night, the women’s 200 meter butterfly was one of the closes races yet, as Spain’s Mireia Belmonte edged out Australia’s Madeline Groves.

The 2016 USA roster includes not only Phelps, but Katie Ledecky setting world records of her own.

“We bring the best out of each other”, he said.

Michael will be competing in the finals tomorrow night, August 11 for his fourth straight Gold medal after winning it in the 2004 Athens Games, 2008 Beijing Games, and 2012 London Games.

Friday’s final could be the last individual race for the most successful Olympic athlete of all time, and the last duel with Le Clos providing both qualify. The only problem is the Olympics take place only once every four years. But swimmers from China and Australia pulled ahead of her by the time finally Maya hit the water. Victor of three golds and five medals overall in London four years ago, she battled depression and didn’t qualify for an individual event in Rio.

There was also one time that he ordered take out, left his name and got the VIP treatment.

Remarkably, just an hour later Phelps was back in the pool to anchor the United States of America team in the 4x200m freestyle relay, winning his 21st gold and consigning Team GB to silver.

Two and a half years ago, the staff at Indiana State University’s Athletic Training Department got certified to use it. She also anchored the U.S. 4x100m free relay team to silver behind Australia. “[Phelps] has been talking a lot of smack in the media about how slow the butterfly is, so I just can’t wait until I race him”, he previously told reporters, via Fox News. “Whatever I can do in the second one (100 fly) just to make it through is what I’ll do”. His medal tally is now 25 – a total that will probably never be surpassed. The U.S. held on, despite the Australians’ tendency to play “a little dirty” (according to Paul George).