Another day XXXI summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The US is firmly entrenched in first place in the medal standings, taking account of gold medals to 16, silver 12 and bronze up to 10. It is noteworthy that of the 38 medals of all advantages 24 Americans earned in swimming, 11 of them gold.
Once again scored Michael Phelps. After defeating the rivals at the distance of 200 m complex, he won the fourth “gold” at the Olympics, thus becoming the 22-time Olympic champion. It was his 13th victory in individual events at competitions of such level (9 relays), which puts Phelps in first place among all the Olympic athletes, he broke the record of the ancient Greek athlete Leonidas of Rhodes. He majored on the run, had 12 victories in four games with a 164-152 BC and up to this point was considered the most decorated Olympian in history.
Sam Phelps is going to stop there. “It was a fantastic week, amazing way to end his career – said the athlete. – This was my last race in the 200 meters. Strange to think that 20 years ago I learned to swim and will cease to compete in the next 48 hours. It’s crazy to think about some of these things, but at the same time it’s very good, because I’ve always been able to do what he wanted.”
Russia is once again seventh
The Russian team did not manage to break the leaders of the medal standings. The sixth day of the Olympic games generally ended without gold medals. Piggy added only one silver and three bronze medals.
Yuliya Efimova has won silver in the final swim in the 200m breaststroke. The first was Japanese Rie Kaneto (2 min 20,30 S.), ahead of the Russian by 1.67 s.
“It was an amazing swim. It was crazy because all the girls was very strong. All swam very quickly, and breaks were minimal. I’m very tired, ” she said. This award is very important to me. Everyone wants to win the gold medal. This is my third Olympic games. At first I was fourth, on the second or third, and now second. Perhaps the next Olympics will finally become mine.”
Another award in swimming brought Evgeny Rylov. In the final 200 m backstroke, he fought on equal footing with the favorites, losing 0,35 C. American Ryan Murphy, who won “gold” and only 0.01 s. the Australian Mitch Larkin, who received “silver”.
Pleased fans also our fencers. Spagetti Tatiana Logunova, Violetta Kolobov and Love Shutova Olga Kochneva in the match for third place team tournament was won by the Estonian team with a score of 37:31.
Another medal went to Russia in gymnastics. Aliya Mustafina won the bronze medal in the individual all-around. She showed the result 58,665 points. The Golden award was won by American Simone Balls (62,198), silver – her compatriot Aleksandra Reisman (60,098).
Records
Unique achievements by the Russian volleyball players. The match between Russia and Egypt (3:0) was the shortest in Olympic history – a total of 54 minutes. He ended with a minimum total number of points 112. A third party has become the most devastating in history, 25:9. Egypt, accordingly, now owns the record.
Short pool
The Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with the first days struck by the abundance of new world records. A significant portion of them were set in swimming. But it turned out that this is the cause, not related to the skill of the athletes. The length of the pool, according to sports columnist Nikolay Yaremenko, two centimeters shorter than the prescribed 50 m. However, this assertion remains to be tested…
Criminal Olympics
Brazil is known for its difficult criminal situation. Here a passer-by can Rob right in broad daylight. The Olympics has not changed the situation. So, lost some of their personal things Russian swimmer, silver medalist of the 2012 Olympics Evgeny Korotyshkin (in the Games he does not participate). According to him, on the way to lunch at the restaurant, he was robbed. “Parted amicably. I got them all out of your pockets in exchange for a captivating story for posterity,” said Korotyshkin.
Earlier also affected the Belgian judoist, the bronze prize-winner of the Rio 2016 Dirk van Tichelt. He got hit in the face when you went after the thief, snatching the phone from the hands of his colleagues.
The Minister of education of Portugal, Tiago Brandao Rodrigues was attacked attacker with a knife. The offender took his valuables, but then was caught by local residents called the police.
Were robbed and the “Russian house” – club for Russian athletes and fans who came to the Olympics. Were stolen three computers and a video camera.
