Men's 4x100m Medley Relay

Gold: USA
Silver: Japan
Bronze: Australia

Yeah, the results was expected. Like the Women's medley before, the big 3 dominated the race. The only difference being the Aussie men's team is a tat bit weaker than the Aussie women's team in this games and Japan, with all fresh medalists (with the exception of Kitajima, but he's already a legend) is a stronger team. I actually thought Japan might win this, because they were tied from Brandan Hansen to Phelps. But Nathan Adrian really helped widen the gap to bring them the gold. :)))

Phelp's last race.
Last swimming event.
It's been a good ride.
:)))

Women's 4x100m Medley Relay

Gold: USA world record
Silver: Australia
Bronze: Japan

What could go wrong with a line up of already gold medalists? The 3 powerhouses of swimming took up the top three spots like expected. Kudos to the ladies for pushing under world record time. What a major medal haul it is for them! :)))

Men's 1500m Freestyle Finals

Gold: Sun Yang (CHN) Olympic Record, World Record 14:31.02
Silver: Ryan Cochrane (CAN) 14:39.63
Bronze: Oussama Mellouli (TUN) 14:40.31

Sun Yang is insane! I was just introducing to my sister who has make it awake to her first ever live swimming events at this olympics, about what happened the last weeks and who the swimmers are. Sun Yang got off to a false start, second so far in this games. Also in this race is Park Taehwan, nice to see him interacting with Sun in the waiting room. The both had definitely grown closer - I'm not sure if they're friends yet, but hope they are - over the past week due to all their events clashing. Sun led from start to finish, Park was second in the first third of the race but fell behind afterwards. Sun didn't kick as much, he was using mainly his hands, cruising along. And he was consistent throughout the race and was ahead of his own world record which he set last year by a stunning 3s (his old record was 14:34.14). A well deserved race! And I wondered what secrets goes behind his training...he is coached by another legend, Grant Hackett's coach.

Mellouli, 27, was the gold medalist for this event at Beijing 2008, and had been the world champion for several years till 2009, till this young boy showed up. This is very well his last olympics, but he looks genuinely contented at his win, as he congratulated Sun happily in the pool and tried to comfort him as Sun did his 'roar' thing. Cochrane, 23, was silver at the last games.

Women's 50m Freestyle Finals

Gold: Kromowidjojo (NED) olympic record
Silver: Herasimenia (BLR)
Bronze: Marleen Veldhuis (NED)

I always like to say 50m were the hardest to win, because it's too short, too fast and the win is always by hundredths of a second - unsatisfying for audience. But Kromowidjojo proved that wrong today as she wins by about 0.2 second, a hand's length. An event later, she went onto the podium, and then immediately after parading with her medals for the press, she walked out again for the women's 4x100 medley relay. :))

Women's 100m Freestyle Finals

Gold: Kromowidjojo (Ned) olympic record
Silver: Herasimenia (Blr)
Bronze: Tang Yi (Chn)

Remember Tang Yi from Yog? She picked up her third bronze medal at this games today. Herasimenia is the first person from Belarus to ever win a medal in the swimming events! :))

Women's 100m Freestyle Finals

Gold: Kromowidjojo (Ned) olympic record
Silver: Herasimenia (Blr)
Bronze: Tang Yi (Chn)

Remember Tang Yi from Yog? She picked up her third bronze medal at this games today. Herasimenia is the first person from Belarus to ever win a medal in the swimming events! :))

Men's 200m Individual Medley Finals

Gold: Clary (Usa) olympic record
Silver: Lochte (Usa)
Bronze: Ryosuke Irie (Jpn)

Just after Lochte's Bronze medal race, you can see him practicing in the training pool. Peireira, Cseh are all in this as well. Lochte led from start to finish. Well-deserved win.

Women's 200m Backstroke Semifinals

Beisel (Usa)
Nay (Aus)
Zueva (Rus)
Franklin (Usa)
Conventry (Zbw)
Russell (Can)
Castel (Fra)
Simmonds (Gbr)

(not in any order)

Zevina from Ukraine, yog champion is also here. :) Missy Franklin, already with 2 gold medals is here too! I really want her to win, she's too fast. Conventry looks like she's going to swim with her life for a medal. I'm guessing this would be her last games, and she would really want a nice swansong. :))

Men's 200m Backstroke Finals

Gold: Tyler Clary (Usa) olympic record

Silver: Ryan Lochte (Usa)

Bronze: Ryosuke Irie (Jpn)

Only the second Israeli swimmer to be in the finals, my yog bias Toumarkin! See you in Rio 2016. :)) Another underdog story today with Tyler Clary. Love them underdog stories. 

Women's 100m Breaststroke Finals

Rebecca Soni is the only swimmer to ever successfully defend a title at these games! And for the first time Japan is getting a silver instead of bonze! First women to ever swim under 2:20s, she's the only person who can do this. Congrats!

Gold: Rebecca Soni (Usa) world record

Silver: Satomi Suzuki (Jpn)

Bronze: Efimova (Rus)

Men's 50m Freestyle Semifinals

Cesar Ceilo (Bra)

Cullen Jones (Usa)

Anthony Ervin

Eamon Sullivan (Aus)

Fratus (Bra)

Schoeman (Rsa)

Bovell (Tri)

Manadou (Fra)

(not in any order)

2 times world champion, Ceilo won in the first round. Another Brazillian Also in the race is YOG star Andrei Goborov is here as well. He almost broke WR last time at Singapore Sports School here. James Magnussen failed to make it into the finals. Still affected from that lost? :( Finals is happening 2 games later.

Women's All-Round Artistic Gymnastics Finals

I thought that USA coach looked familiar. He's Liang Chow, the coach that was made famous by coaching world champion Shawn Johnson. Received another education from my younger self here. I actually look forward to seeing Shawn get that gold back then. I didn't realize how short-lived their careers are and could only make it to at most (normally), 2 olympics. One before their peaks and one during their peak. And the turn over rate for women is quicker. 

Gabrielle Johnson is just one precarious child. From the start, she never rests. She kept on stretching, jumping around, her head in the game. She didn't even look at the cameras, didn't glance at the leader boards too much. My mum decided after seeing her at her first apparatus that she would win gold, and went to sleep. How spot on! 

Also in the competition is Viktoria Komova, who shined in Youth Olympic Games and is hot favourite to become champion. An article I scanned 2 years ago (I was so much more crazier then) predicted that she will be the future olympic star. Both of them are 17 years old this year. She led from the qualifiers but lost to Douglas in the end...I think both of them are maybe, equally great. But Douglas won that mental bit. She was more composed, more calm. 

I had goosebumps after seeing Komova mouthing 'oh my god', with tears glistening in her eyes. She's still as calm as always. She's such a fighter, she lives with a host family in another state just so she could train with Liang Chow. Komova broke down upon receiving the results. :(( Aww.

Men's All-Round Artistic Gymnastics Finals

My family and I don't understand the sport at all, no matter how the commentator helped. We just watched. We praise good steady landings, because that's the only thing we laymen can see. Kohei Uchimura finally won gold. I thought his name sounded familiar. Received an education from my 17 year old self here ; he made his name known in 2008, became the first man to ever win 3 consecutive world championships in 2009, 2010 and 2011. This fighter kept up, become better, maintained...all the hard work paid off when he finally got a taste of sweet victory. Now he can step down in style or continue to shake the world. I''m so happy for you!

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)

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 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)