Ryan Lochte
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"Ryan Steven Lochte" is an American competitive swimming (sport)/swimmer and an eleven-time Olympic Games/Olympic medalist (five gold, three silver, three bronze). His seven individual Olympic medals ranks List of multiple Olympic medalists#List of most career medals in individual events/near the top in men's swimming. As part of the American team, he holds the List of world records in swimming/world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay (long course). Individually, he currently holds the world record in the 100-meter individual medley, 200-meter individual medley (long and short course), and the 400-meter individual medley (short course).

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Hopefully how the US did tonight will hype up everyone else and it will improve for tomorrow and Sunday. We'll see what happens.

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It is perfect and I feel excited. It is my first world record in this championship. What is special is the atmosphere here is so good and I like the pool. The competition is hard but it is a great push to me.

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It feels great. I had my family, my team, everyone supporting me.

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We had our minds set on it all year. I'm glad I could go out and accomplish these goals.

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I've been training really hard this year, more than any other year. My mind was set on it, and after the first one, I just kept feeding off of it.

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It put me into a better racing dynamic.

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I knew he was here tonight. I tapped him in the gut when I was walking over to the starting blocks.

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The biggest thing I'll miss is being part of the team.

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I'm just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you're usually not going to get it.

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