U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps won his third gold medal and record-tying ninth of his career on Tuesday morning, breaking his own world record in the 200-meter freestyle.
The American won in a time of 1 minute, 42.96 seconds, lowering his old mark of 1:43.86 set at last year's world championships in Australia.
It was expected he would face a strong challenge for the gold from the other finalists, but he led from the start, cruising to the wall nearly 2 seconds ahead of silver medallist Park Tae-hwan of South Korea, who finished in 1:44.85. American Peter Vanderkaay earned the bronze in 1:45.14.
Phelps already has nine career gold medals, tying him with four others, including swimmer Mark Spitz and track star Carl Lewis, for the most in Olympics history. He's got five more chances for gold in Beijing -- the next one comes Wednesday.
The American won in a time of 1 minute, 42.96 seconds, lowering his old mark of 1:43.86 set at last year's world championships in Australia.
It was expected he would face a strong challenge for the gold from the other finalists, but he led from the start, cruising to the wall nearly 2 seconds ahead of silver medallist Park Tae-hwan of South Korea, who finished in 1:44.85. American Peter Vanderkaay earned the bronze in 1:45.14.
Phelps already has nine career gold medals, tying him with four others, including swimmer Mark Spitz and track star Carl Lewis, for the most in Olympics history. He's got five more chances for gold in Beijing -- the next one comes Wednesday.
Well, can I just say...wow? Phelps has apparently been busy and apparently will be kept busy during the games. Even though I am currently in Argentina and I obviously support said country in most of the games it participates in...Go Phelps!
Italic is text taken from cnn.com as is the image.
2 comments:
Wow sounds like you love Phelps
Depends on what you mean with that ;) I like his swimming and all *shrugs* I think he deserves to get the gold. But if you mean that it sounds like I love him romanticly...nope. Dont swing that way.
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