Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Heats

I'm guessing US, France and China will take home the medals. :)

1.          GBR

2.         France

3.         Canada

4.       Australia

5.         United States

6.        Italy

7.         China

8.        Japan

Men's 200m Individual Medley Heats

Total of 5 heats. What names can be more familiar than the following. Fresh from yesterday’s historical records (more cameras/eyes will be on him now), let’s hope he could maintain his speed and keep calm.

1.           Vytautas Janusaitis (Ltu)

2.         Henrique Rodrigues (Bra)

3.         James Goddard (Gbr)

4.       Ryan Lochte (Usa)

5.         Michael Phelps (Usa)

6.        Markus Rogan (Aut)

7.         Gal Nevo (Isr)

8.        Andrew Ford (Can)

1.           Daniel Tranter (Aus)

2.         Kan Takakuwa (Jpn)

3.         Thiago Pereira (Bra)

4.       Laszlo Cseh (Hun)

5.         Kosuke Hagino (Jpn)

6.        Markus Deibler (Ger)

7.         Chad le Clos (Rsa)

8.        Joe Roebuck (Gbr)

Women's 200m Breaststroke Heats

A total of 5 heats. Nice to see the Koreans making it to the semifinals!

1.           Martha Mccabe (Can)

2.         Suzaan van Biljon (Rsa)

3.         Anastasia Chaun (Rus)

4.       Rebecca Soni (Usa)

5.         Satomi Suzuki (Jpn)

6.        Liping Ji (Chn)

7.         Sara El Bekri (Mar)

8.        Dare Jeong (Kor)

1.           Iillia Efimova (Rus)

2.         Sally Foster (Aus)

3.         Joline Hoshman (Swe)

4.       Rikke Pedersen (Den)

5.         Micah Lawrence (Usa)

6.        Sueyon Back (Kor)

7.         Kanako Wantanabe (Jpn)

8.        Tessa Wallace (Aus)

Men's 200m Backstroke Heats

A total of 5 heats. The usual names for the backstroke, the yoggie Toumarkin and Ryan Lochte.

Semifinals:

1.           Radoslaw Kawecki (Pol)

2.         Mitch Larkin (Aus)

3.         Jan-Phillip Glania (Ger)

4.       Ryan Lochte (Usa)

5.         Ryosuke Irie (Jpn)

6.        Yakov Toumarkin (Isr)

7.         yannick Lebherz (Gbr)

8.        Leonardo Deus (Bra)

1.           Kazuki Wantanabe (Jpn)

2.         Peter Bernek (Hun)

3.         Gabor Balog (Hun)

4.       Tyler Clary (Usa)

5.         Fenglin Zhang (Chn)

6.        Nick Driebergen (Ned)

7.         Tobias Oriwol (Can)

8.        Omar Pinzon Garcia (Col)

Women's 100m Freestyle Heats

A total of 7 heats. I have a feeling Tang Yi is going to get gold. After her seeing her comrades done it, she must be even more inspired and more firm that she could win it.  Wonder kid Ruta Meilutyte failed to make it into the semis this round. Going into the semifinals:

1.         Britta Steffen (Ger)

2.        Sarah Sjostrom (Swe)

3.        Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace (Bah)

4.       Melanie Schlanger (Aus)

5.        Aliaksandra Herasimenia (Blr)

6.        Jessica Hardy (Usa)

7.        Haruka Ueda (Jpn)

8.        Daniela Schreiber (Ger)

1.        Amy Smith (Gbr)

2.       Julia Wilkinson (Can)

3.       Ranomi Kromowidjojo (Ned)

4.      Tang Yi (Chn)

5.       Jeanette Ottesen Gray (Den)

6.      Ran Halsall (Gbr)

7.      Missy Franklin (Usa)

8.      Femke Heemskerk (Ned)

End of Day 4: Most Emotional by Far

I really need to do this fast because I really want to hit the sacks before 4.30am. Dozed off on the bus rides, dozed off during work. That's epic unprofessional. But Olympics - it's truly larger than life. Anywho -

icon of le day 4

The focus today is definitely on Michael Phelps. His most earth-shattering defeat, and him being the greatest olympian of all time with 19 olympic medals. And within that, so many world records and other glorious statistics in whichever ways you want to group it. Remember how I was so in love with the real olympic fish back in 2008? He will forever be a hero in my, and alot of many people's heart. I had the below typed out, because deep inside me, I was really anticipating a miracle:

At 15 years of age back in 2001, Phelps broke the world record for the 200m Butterfly which put him on the map. Ever since then, the 200m Butterfly is like a battle between he himself because only he can beat his own timing. He is still the current world record holder since 2009. It is undoubtedly the event that matters to him the most.

No man has ever successfully defended a swimming title 3 times in a row.

That's 12 years of being the fastest in the world.

I thought I had missed the shot at at least inspiring just one soul out there. But there's still the 100m butterfly in which he could still be the only man to defend a title 3 times. This will be Phelp's last olympics, for sure. In his last events, you can expect the whole stadium to give a standing ovation for the greatest olympian of all time. He is definitely the hero of alot of young swimmers, including Chad le Clos, who beat him in his favourite event. He definitely inspired me, made me discover the beauty of swimming and fall so crazily in love with it. That I'm here doing this now. Not anything huge, but I have a huge fire in me that's burning wildly!

What impressed me the most is how gracious Phelps is. Even though le Clos beat him to a beautiful swansong, he took the results with a big heart, and congratulated le Clos genuinely. You can tell by the way they're interacting, Phelps is kind of like a mentor looking out for him. Imagine 5 year old le Clos watching 15 year old Phelps breaking the world record, helping him to believe that he could do it too. Imagine the 10 year old le Clos watching the 20 year old Phelps at Athens, sweeping the golds, least to say at Beijing when le Clos is slowly breaking into the scene. Phelps is his hero. Take a look a le Clos's facebook and there's only one picture, and it's of him and Phelps. I really love what Phelps said to le Clos. It's so epicly gracious. "I really enjoyed swimming with you these few years ... " Unless I remember it wrongly... you really got to start having the best heart to become one of the best person. :)))

And now to le Clos, the boy whom I have been rooting for since seeing him shine ever so brightly at the YOG. He was leading at first, and the local commentator said something about how youngsters would always start fast. Phelps led after the first 100m and le Clos chased fiercely behind. It looks like Phelps is going to make history even sweeter, but in the last 5m, le Clos and Phelps is head to head and le Clos took the extra stroke to finish first. How he roared in the pool. That's some pure, innocent, uncensored joy that I've yet to seen for sometime. Shortly after his out burst, he realized what he had achieved and broke down. Lips shaking, tears streaming, trying his best to keep the tears to himself but he can't. The only person to ever beat Phelps in the 200m Butterfly since 2000.

What a night.

xoxo

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Final

Gold: USA

Silver: France

Bronze: China

A phenomenon night. Phelp's teammates helped him cruise through his anchorman leg, giving him almost half a pool's length of advantage before going up against the current fastest 200m Freestyler in the world Yannick Agnel. And I'm really impressed by Agnel's speed, really. He managed to close the big gap to finish second.

Women's 200m Individual Medley Final

Gold: Ye Shiwen (Chn) Olympic Record

Silver: Alicia Coutts (Aus)

Bronze: Caitlin Leverenz (Usa)

Dope my ass! Ye Shiwen's mood is definitely affected, but that doesn't stop her from swimming her best and breaking yet another olympic record. You go girl!

Men's 200m Breaststroke Semifinal

-CAN'T FUNCTION

STILL EMOTIONAL-

CRYING FROM THE MEDAL GIVING CEREMONY-

Women's 200m Butterfly Semifinal

-CAN'T FUNCTION

STILL EMOTIONAL FROM CHAD LE CLOS'S WIN-

MOST EMOTIONAL WIN TO DATE

TO DATE

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Men's 200m Butterfly Final

CHAD LE CLOS BEAT MICHAEL PHELPS! HE IS THE FIRST PERSON TO EVER BEAT PHELPS IN THE 200M BUTTERFLY! LOOK AT HOW HE CELEBRATED IN THE WATER! (more of these in the end of the day post. I'm too emotional right now)

Gold: Chad le Clos (Rsa)

Silver: Michael Phelps (Usa)

Bronze: Takeshi Matsuda (Jpn)

Women's 200m Freestyle Final

Missy Franklin won her first gold yesterday. This is Camille Muffat's favourite event, not the 400m that she'd won. Mark Richmond called it 'sweet revenge' because Schmitt had been playing second fiddle so far throughout the games.

Gold: Allison Schmitt (Usa) Olympic record

Silver: Camille Muffat (Fra)

Bronze: Bronte Barratt (Aus)

4. Missy Franklin (Usa)

5. Federica Pellegrini (Ita)

6. Veronika Popova (Rus)

7. Cailtlin Mcclatchey (Gbr)

8. Kylie Palmer (Aus)

Men's 100m Freestyle Semifinal

Current world champion James Magnussen and World record holder Cesar Cielo. Question. Magnussen is only 21 years old. Why does he look so damn mature! He sprinted to un-chasable distance by the last 25m. I like Brent Hayden's tats! Capless too because he's botak! :))

1. Nathan Adrian (Usa)

2. James Magnussen (Aus)

3. Hanser Garcia (Cub)

4. Sebastiaan Verschuren (Ned)

5. Cesar Cielo (Bra)

6. Brent Hayden (Can)

7. Yannick Agnel (Fra)

8. Nikita Lobintsev (Rus)