Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Tim Layden: After not coming through in 400 relay, pressure building on Lochte

LONDON — Sun Yang of China and Ryan Lochte of the United States were back in the pool on Sunday as the top two qualifiers in the 200-meter freestyle hours after their gold-medal efforts at the Olympics. Sun was fastest in 1 minute, 46.24 seconds

HONG KONG (CNN) — When Chinese teenager Ye Shiwen dives into the pool on Monday, all eyes will be firmly on the clock to see if she can repeat her world-beating — Ryan Lochte-beating — time in the last 50 meters. The 16-year-old is due to swim the

Lochte told me he tried to wear his grill on the podium,” a reporter tweeted, “only to have an Olympics official tell him if he did so he wouldn't get his gold.”

The athlete was reportedly told he wouldn't receive his gold medal Saturday if he wore it on the podium after his win.

LONDON — After chasing Michael Phelps for an eternity, Ryan Lochte now chases history. "In the run-up to London, Ryan Lochte had been widely anointed as more marketable than Michael Phelps, owning magazine racks with a succession of crossover


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