Caeleb Dressel leads US with Olympic gold on night of swimming records, rivalries in Tokyo.
The pressure and comparisons to Phelps did not cower the 24-year-old from Florida, who had never before won an individual gold medal at the Olympics.After the legend retired, Dressel emerged as the world’s dominant swimmer. He lived up to the hype at an Olympics where several U.S. stars have faltered.
“I knew that weight was on my shoulders,” he said following the race, according to The Associated Press. also won gold with a surprise win in the men's 800-meter freestyle Thursday. It was his first Olympic medal in his first Olympic Games.in the first Olympic women's 1,500-meter freestyle race Wednesday.
Ledecky, meanwhile, got another shot at her Australian rival Ariarne Titmus, nicknamed the 'Terminator.'
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