Michael Phelps, the record man in Olympic history, insatiable when accumulate medals, is again pulled to the pool on Monday in the Games Rio 2016, where they leave again to stage the 'Dream Team' and Argentine Lionesses and fourteen final will be played.
The Jaws of Baltimore, who on Sunday won with the US 4x100 relay m free its nineteenth Olympic gold, will begin his bid to regain the crown in the 200m butterfly, which snatched in London-2012 South African Chad le Clos.
Monday is the heats and semifinals of the first individual event of the three in which compete Phelps, who at age 31 seems determined to continue agigantando his legend. And it is not impossible.
But Phelps is not the only attraction that has this third day of swimming, which takes beaten six world records since the tournament began Saturday.
The 'bad boy' Chinese Sun Yang faces a new battle for free 200m, after losing his title in the 400m free on Saturday with Australian Mack Horton.
While topped the times in the preliminaries, Sun is not the favorite of the distance, which are the world record Paul Biedermann and world champion James Guy.
Thus, a new frustration haunts the Chinese swimmer in the pool water complex Olympic Park Rio de Janeiro.
- Las Leonas for recovery -
Sun Yang not only seek recovery Monday, also must straighten the road Las Leonas, Argentina's women's hockey team, which debuted in Rio-2016 with a hard and unexpected defeat against the United States.
"We know that the tournament is over. It was the first game and not over anything," said the captain of Las Leonas, Carla Rebecchi, after the defeat in the debut.
Monday's rival, Japan, seems to be ideal for Las Leonas find the winning ways and start thinking seriously about the possibility of getting the Olympic gold for the first time in its history.
Moreover, the 'Dream Team' US will play its second match of Group A men's basketball weak against Venezuela, rival that comes in handy to send a new warning to his rivals.
United States, current Olympic champion, debuted Saturday with a landslide victory in Group A on China by 119-62 and no one seems able to stop to his third consecutive gold.
And if that were not enough, his main opponent in the search for gold, Spain, lost on Sunday against all odds against Croatia 72-70 and the way in Group B will not be a bed of roses.
- Phelps 19, Djokovic 0 -
And if Phelps siguó enlarging his legend on Sunday with his gold medal nineteenth-and 23 in total, Novak Djokovic could not exorcise his demons Olympic.
'Nole', the owner of men's tennis for two years' Take 108 weeks at the front of the classification of the ATP, you still can not enshrined in the Games, where he only managed a bronze in Beijing 2008.
Sunday suffered perhaps the greatest humiliation of his career by being eliminated in the first round of Rio 2016 with his friend Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro.
The 'Tower of Tandil' won 7-6 (7/4) 7-6 (7/2) and frustrate him again, as he did four years ago when he won in London-2012 in the party bronze medal.
- Kosovo on the Olympic map -
Majlinda Kelmendi judoka gave the first gold medal by winning Kosovo in the -52 kg category in the absolute debut of the young Balkan republic.
After winning the decisive battle Giuffrida Italian Odette, Kelmendi collapsed on the mat, before greeting the handful of compatriots present in the scenario that did not stop encouraging her to cry, "Ko-so-vo! Ko-so- vo ".
In a day full of batacazos Sunday, weak Iraq national football team snatched a 0-0 draw at the 'Selecao' Neymar, another new hosts frustrating performance in the debut matched by the same score against South Africa .
Brazil now has beards to soak in search of the gold medal, the only award missing from the selected world champions.
A premature removal of the Selecao would shake these Games Rio to the ground.
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