Day 4 - Recap

What was difficult to do at the last Olympics is becoming "easy" this Olympics. What has changed? Of course technology comes into play but is that all. The one thing that hasn't changed is that everyone of these athletes are in the water everyday practicing to reach their goals at Beijing.



The women started the events with the 200m freestyle where Federica Pellegrini from Italy defended her title and broke the WR (1:54.82). Sara Isakovi from Slovenia and Jiayng Pang from China took silver and bronze respectively. Katie Hoff was also in this event, she was seated 5th but managed to move up a spot to 4th place (1:55.78), no medal but to be 4th at the Olympics isn't half bad.

Michael Phelps was in the next event, 200m Butterfly, his specialty. He broke is own WR (1:52.03) and now has a collection of 10 gold medals! He is the first individual to receive this many Golds!

Natalie Coughlin and Katie Hoff battled on the finish of the 200m IM. Coughlin finished 3rd (2:10.34) while Hoff was a close 4th (2:10.68).



The final event for the evening was the 4x200m relay with Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Ricky Berens and Peter Vanderkaay. Phelps lead the relay with a lead and everyone that followed made that lead even bigger. This relay was not only ahead of 2nd place by 5 seconds but they also broke the WR by 5 seconds (6:58.56). Even though this team was so far ahead and it was a guarantee to get the gold, you can still see the enthusiasm in there faces when Vanderkaay finished!

GO USA

Medal Tally - 7 Gold, 5 Silver and 6 Bronze