One Dead, One Missing in Louisiana Flooding; Evacuations and Rescues Ongoing as Rivers Rise Toward Record ...

1,000 people rescued from Deadly flooding in Louisiana
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At least three people has died and one has gone missing in severe flooding that has swamped a large swath of southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has declared a state of emergency.

The Amite and Comite rivers are both expected to set new flood level records.

Rising waters entered St. Helena Parish Hospital.

Two people have died and one remains missing as torrential rains continue to inundate both Louisiana and southern Mississippi, flooding homes and forcing evacuations and water rescues.

More than 24 inches of rain have fallen in Livingston, Louisiana, according to observations relayed to the National Weather Service, and Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency for the entire state. Edwards is heading back to Louisiana, cutting short a trip to Colorado for a meeting of the Democratic Governors Association, according to the Associated Press.

The downpours have also been sending area riversrising quickly toward historic crests, with the Amite River in Denham Springs, Louisiana, already reaching historic levels and expected to rise 4 1/2 feet above the record.

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Two Dead in Louisiana

Flooding triggered by the heavy rainfall has left at least three people dead in the Pelican State.

On Friday, 68-year-oldWilliam Mayfield drowned trying to escape floodwaters near Zachary, Louisiana, as heavy rains piled up water in the northeastern regions of the state, NBC News reported.

"We were in the trailer just watching TV and then the water just started coming up," Vernon Drummond, Mayfield"s roommate, told the station. "We were walking out and he slipped and fell. He went under the water. We tried to save him, but we couldn"t."

Rescue crews in Zachary recovered Mayfield"s body Friday morning, according to WAFB. Drummond says Mayfield is originally from Los Angeles and does not have any family in the area.

According to East Baton Rouge Parish Emergency Management Director JoAnne Moreau, the body of an elderly man was recovered. The victim was being helped through floodwaters when he slipped into a ditch.

A man is still missing after he and his son were swept away by rushing waters in Tangipahoa Parish, reports CNN.

Police Chief Darrell Martin told CNN that the son has been located.

"Be Prepared to Leave"

According to WWL-TV,the Bogue Chitto River is expected to crest at 18 feet, and deputies are going door-to-door in Bogue Chitto Heights telling residents "be prepared to leave." In Tangipahoa Parish, president Robby Miller instructed residents living near the Tangipahoa River to leave their homes and find a safer place to stay until the water recedes, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported.

The flooding was so bad Friday in Walker, Louisiana, that caskets were unearthed in St. Mark"s Cemetery. Photos posted by the Walker Police Department on Facebook showed at least two bright yellow caskets floating in floodwaters.

"Virtually every road now in the city has some kind of water problem," Central, Louisiana, mayor Jr. Shelton told the Baton Rouge Advocate. "We"ve never seen anything like this before."

Aschool bus ferrying children home veered off the road and into a ditch in Zachary, according to a separate Baton Rouge Advocate report. Zachary police chief David McDavidsaid no one was injured in the accident, which likely occurred when the driver didn"t see a turn due to high floodwaters.

The National Weather Service (NWS) declared a flash flood emergency Friday morning as rising water entered St. Helena Parish Hospital and a local nursing home. The rising water was also responsible for isolating the towns of Greenburg, Louisiana, and Osyka, Mississippi.

Flooding also forced an Amtrak train traveling from Chicago to New Orleans to stop in central Mississippi because floodwaters covered the tracks, according to the AP. Amtrak planned to bus the passengers to New Orleans, the report added.

A motorist sustained moderate injuries Friday after a tree was knocked over onto their vehicle in St. Helena Parish, according to the Louisiana Police Department.

Storms in Crosby, Mississippi, flooded much of the town Friday afternoon and evening, according to Wilkinson County Emergency Management Director Thomas Tolliver. Fifty-two residents voluntarily fled the town to a shelter in Natchez Thursday afternoon, Tolliver also told weather.com. Crosby is home to about 300 people.

Water rescues have also been reported in Centreville, Mississippi, according to the NWS.

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The National Guard has deployed high water vehicles to make rescues in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, WWLT.com reports. Interstate 55 was closed in both directions in St. Helena Parish due to flooding, the Louisiana Department of Transportation reported Friday.

St. Charles Parish President Larry Cochran declared a state of emergency Thursday in a precautionary move in anticipation of further rainfall and flooding later this week, WBRZ.com reported.

"Within two hours, it was flooded," St. Charles resident Tiffany Jackson told Fox 8. It went from master bedroom to my sons bedroom to the hallway to the kitchen to the bathroom, and every time I swept it up it just kept coming back in."

The office of Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Saturday morning also released a revised list of shelters for those impacted by floods.

Rivers Rising to Record Levels

All this heavy rain quickly overwhelmed waterways in the region. The Tickfaw River reached a record flood stage of 13.33 feet at Liverpool, according to the NWS, and crests on the Amite and Comite Rivers are forecast to exceed record levels set in 1983.

By Saturday morning, the Amite River in Denham Springs, Louisiana, had reached the historic crest level of 41.5 feet, according to NWS. The tributary has been forecasted to reach 46 feet by Sunday morning.

As of Saturday,the Comite River in Louisiana has surpassed its historic level of 30.64 feet. The waterway crested to 31.74 feet and is forecasted to rise to 34.5 feet by Sunday morning.

During the record flood that year, the Amite and Comite riversflooded3,025 homes and businesses in Livingston Parish, 1,615 in East Baton Rouge Parish and 828 in Ascension Parish, the Baton Rouge Advocate said.

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Favorite/Least Favorite: United States Women"s Gymnastics Team Edition

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Favorite/Least Favorite: United States Womens Gymnastics Team EditionJust enough Aly Raisman, not enough pommel horseGetty Images

So far, my favorite quote from the Olympics comes from Aly Raisman, the captain of the United States womens gymnastics team. Its from an NBC Olympics story, and was an answer to a question about whether being such overwhelming favorites meant there was increased pressure on the team.

She said: Were going in as the best team in the world. So we should carry ourselves that way, not be scared and shaky because we have that pressure. It should be the opposite. You know, you walk in like youre number one and I think thats intimidating to everyone else.

NOT BE SCARED OR SHAKY BECAUSE WE HAVE THAT PRESSURE. That s**t is incredible to me.

During basketball season or football season I always hate when the team I like is the one that everyone says is supposed to win, because then it feels like the only things that can happen are (A) you win the thing, which is [whatever] because you were supposed to win it anyway, or (B) you lose the thing, which is an utter and total catastrophe. Im terrified of that. Im terrified of even rooting for a team that might suffer a catastrophic blow. Id always rather be in the opposite position: where its (A) you lose the thing, and its [whatever] because you were supposed to lose it anyway, or (B) you win the thing, which is an utter and total miracle. Those are the low stakes I prefer.

So when I saw that Aly Raisman quote, it was just like, Oh. I get it. Im a coward. Aly Raisman describing her team as the best team in the world and then saying that considering themselves as such only makes them even more powerful is just such a fantastic and foreign thing to me.

Prior to competing in her first Olympics in London in 2012, Raisman was the subject of a documentary called Aly Raisman: Quest for Gold. It was filmed from 2011 up until the Olympic trials. Do you understand what that means? She literally had them make an entire documentary about her wanting to win a gold medal at the Olympics, the most pressure-stuffed contest a gymnast can enter, and she did it BEFORE she was even on the Olympic team, which quadruples the pressure of the situation.

But then guess what she did? Ill tell you what she did. She tried out for the team. Then she made the team. Then she went to the Olympics. Then she won a gold medal. Then she won ANOTHER gold medal. Then she won a bronze one, too, just because. It was more medals than any other gymnast on the American team won in London, not to mention that one was for the floor routine, which no American woman had ever done before.

Aly Raismans confidence is my favorite thing about these Olympics. It has a gravity to it.

My other favorite/least favorite things from the 2016 United States womens gymnastics team:

Favorite: Absolute Team Dominance

Under the current Olympic scoring system, no gymnastics team had ever won as decisively and crushingly as the U.S. women did this year. Here are the scores for the first- and second-place teams in that event from the past four games:

2012, USA: 183.596, Russia: 178.530

2008, China: 188.900, USA: 186.525

2004, Romania: 114.283, USA: 113.584

2000, Romania: 154.608, Russia: 154.403

Mostly, when a team wins the competition, its by a point, maybe a little more. The 2016 U.S. women beat Russia, the second-place team, by more than eight points. Thats like if the Spurs won a game by 160, or like if the Sixers won a game at all.

Least Favorite: No Pommel Horse

They dont have the pommel horse in womens gymnastics. Thats very unfortunate because its very tense and so much fun to watch due to how difficult of a thing it is to navigate. (Im a big fan of high stakes when its someone elses well-being in play instead of my own.)

The pommel horse is my favorite kind of gymnastics apparatus and also my favorite kind of horse in general, really. It goes:

• Pommel horse: the most challenging of all horses
• Sea horse: the most elegant of all horses and the most mysterious, too
• Sawhorse: the most practical of all horses
• Regular horse: the most basic of all horses
• Workhorse: the most useful of all horses and also the one I respect the most
• Trojan horse: the least trustworthy of all horses

I wish every Olympic athlete in every Olympic sport had to do at least one pass on the pommel horse. Im sad that they dont. But Im especially sad that the Team USA women dont get to.

Favorite: Athlete Story Arcs

Look at how the team is put together. Youve got:

• Aly Raisman: The unshakable, unflappable leader of the team. Drop her into whatever situation it is that you think is the most deadly, the most dangerous, and watch her back handspring her way right TF out that b***h untouched. Shes the second-best all-around gymnast on the planet right now, losing out only to
• Simone Biles: Her brilliance is endless. From just 2013 to now, between the Olympics and world championships, she has won 16 individual and team medals, 12 of which were gold. I was watching a trailer for the new Wonder Woman movie for, like, two full minutes before I realized I was actually just watching Simone Biles on the balance beam. Shes unreal.
• Laurie Hernandez: Read this.
• Gabby Douglas: She and Raisman are the only American women in history to have three Olympic gold medals, one of which was for the individual all-around that Douglas won in 2012, which, FYI, made her the first African American woman to do so.
• Madison Kocian: The quiet one, yes. But cobras have never been much for talking, you know what Im saying? I watched an uneven bars routine this week where she literally got a 0.0 on the penalties portion of her score. Shes unfuckwithable.

Theres this movie that came out in 1989 called Best of the Best, about a team of Americans that gets put together to face a Korean team in a massively important international martial arts tournament. The Final Five are the real-life version of that, and it makes me so happy.

Least Favorite: My Sense of Self-Worth

On the one hand, the Olympics are dope because you get to watch incredible humans do incredible things, but then on the other hand you realize that you are not an incredible human and cannot do incredible things. I think the closest I ever came in my life to being a gymnast is: One time I dropped my phone but before it smashed on the floor I managed to get my foot underneath it and it absorbed enough of the force from the initial impact that the screen didnt crack when it finally actually hit the floor.

Least Favorite: The Two-Per-Country Rule

To qualify to compete in the individual all-around competition, scores are tallied up from the previous rounds of competition on each apparatus and then arranged from highest to lowest. The 24 highest scores qualify, and anyone outside of that gets to watch. The one sticky part, though, is that each country is only allowed to advance two gymnasts into the finals, even if that particular countrys third-place gymnast scored higher than a different countrys first- or second-place gymnast, which is exactly what happened to the USAs Jordyn Wieber at the 2012 Olympics and also what happened to Gabby Douglas, the reigning all-around Olympic champion, this year (Biles and Raisman scored higher). Its a rule put in place to help grow the popularity of gymnastics outside of already-dominant countries, so I can see the reasoning behind it. But, I mean, I also see the reasoning behind not eating candy for dinner every day, too. That doesnt mean I like it.

Favorite: Aly Raismans First Tumbling Pass During the Floor Exercise

Listen, I really dont even know how to explain exactly what all it was that she did here. The technical description of it is a roundoff, one-and-a-half step-out into a roundoff, back handspring into an Arabian double front into a punch layout. That probably doesnt mean anything to you, same as it didnt mean anything to me when I heard the commentators talking about it beforehand. All I know is that she lined up on one side of the floor, started running, planted, then there was this big, bright flash of light, and then when I woke up I saw that all of my furniture had been thrown through the wall and both of my ACLs were torn.

(You can see the pass in slow motion here.)

The Olympics is full of the greatest athletes in the world doing the most athletic things possible (and also archery). Raismans first tumbling pass, which she did in London in 2012 and then did even better in Brazil, is the number-one thing thats happened so far.

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Michelle Carter: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Shot Putter Michelle Carter Has The Potential To Place In Her Event

Michelle Carter, the daughter of NFL star Michael Carter, is hoping to become the first American woman to medal in shot put since 1960. (Getty)

Michelle Carter has made it to the shot put final at the Rio Olympics, scheduled for 9 p.m. on Friday night. She became be the first American woman to medal at the Olympics in shot put in 56 years. She is also the first American woman ever to win gold in shot put.

The 30-year-old Carter also made it the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games.

Shes also the daughter of Michael Carter, athree-time super Bowl champion and the only athlete to win a Super Bowl ring and an Olympic medal in a single year.

Heres a look at Carters life and career.

1. Carter Is the First American Woman to Medal in Shot Put Since the 1960 Rome Olympics

Michelle Carter at the 2015 track & field Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. (Getty)

Its been a long time since an American woman medalled in shot put 56 years to be exact. The last one to do it was Earlene Brown, who won the bronze at the 1960 Rome Summer Olympics. Carter is not only hoping to end that drought, but also hoping to prove to girls who are shot putters wont look away from the spotlight.

It has been a long time, Carter told the New Yorker. And its something I think a lot of girls and women shy away from because its not looked at as something a woman would want to do or a woman should do.

Carter continued, I think now, its like, You know what? Were girls and we can throw heavy b***s and be in the dirt and we look good while were doing it. I think its bringing more attention to the sport and girls are realizing, Hey, I can do this and its O.K. to do this as a girl.

Carter isnt the only American woman competing for the shot put title. Raven Saunders also made the final. Felisha Johnson also made the Olympics, but didnt reach the final.

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Click here to read more2. Shes a Certified Makeup Artist & Sells Makeup on Her Website

Michelle Carter at the IAAF World Indoor athletic championships in Portland, Oregon in March 2016. (Getty)

When Carter isnt competing for shot put medals, shes a business owner and certified makeup artist. Her company is called Shot Diva and she sells makeup packages online. She cares deeply about looking as best as possible

I believe when you take the time to take care of yourself and put yourself together, that helps boost your confidence, she told IAAF.org before the Olympic trials. She wore red hair at the trials in Oregon.

She also told the New Yorker that its essential for her to feel good on the field. She thought about how she should look, but decided against caring about what other people think.

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Click here to read more3. It Wasnt Her Father Who Got Her Interested in Shot Put, but a Middle School Teacher

Michelle Carter in March. (Getty)

Surprisingly, it wasnt her father who really got her interested in shot put. According to Athletics Weekly, when she tried out for a basketball team in seventh grade, she didnt make the ream. So, a teacher suggested she try shot put. She did and it changed the trajectory of her career in sports.

However, Carter told IAAF.org that he first sport was soccer. My very first sport was soccer. I used to play in goal but after I was hit the face with the ball a couple of times, I was done with soccer, she said.

Her shot put career really got going when she won a silver medal at the 2001 World Youth Championships in Hungary.

That was my first time going out of the USA and seeing other athletes who do the same thing I do. I really enjoyed it and thought I could see myself doing this for a long time," she told Athletics Weekly.

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Click here to read more4. Her First & Current Coach Is Her Father, Michael Carter

Michael Carter at the 1984 Summer Olympics. (Getty)

Michael Carter was a member of the San Francisco 49ers dynasty that dominated the NFL in the 1980s, as part of the teams that won the Super Bowl in 1985, 1989 and 1990. He won the silver medal in shot put at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, so hes the only athlete to win both a Super Bowl ring and an Olympic medal within 12 months.

Carter told IAFF.org that her father was her first coach and still coaches her.

Hes stern, but is a big believer in hard work, she said. I won more high school titles than Dad but he won more NCAA titles. Overall he wins, because he has the Olympic silver medal and to definitely beat him I need to win Olympic gold.

In an interview with NBC Sports at the Olympic trials, Michael Carter says that he tells his children that, to succeed, They want to work harder and be diligent in what you do, and dont give up. You dont quit. Even though youre going through tough times, you still have to push forward.

Her sister, DAndra, won the 2008 NCAA bronze medal in discus and also reached the Olympic trials. She also has a brother, Michael Carter Jr.

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Click here to read more5. She Runs a Sports-Confidence Camp Called You Throw Girl

Michelle Carter at the 15th IAAF World Athletics Championships Beijing 2015 with her bronze medal. (Getty)

In addition to her makeup business, Carter also runs a sports-confidence camp for girls called You Throw Girl. The camp hopes to help female athletes build their confidence to compete.

Carter, who once posed in ESPN The Magazines body issue, is all about promoting confidence and feeling good while competing.

When you wake up each morning, brush your teeth, shower and put on nice clothes, it sets the tone for the day, Carter told Spikes. I want to make sure Im looking my best because it gives me a boost of energy. If I look my best, I perform to my best.

Carter has succeeded at almost every level of shot put. She won gold at the 2016 World Indoor Championships and has bronze medals from the 2011 Pan American Games, the 2015 World Championships and the 2012 World Indoor Championships. She set a personal best mark in Portland in March with 20.21-meter.

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"Indignation" creates feel of unease beneath orderly "50s surface ...

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JCC Greenwich is presenting a sneak-preview of the film "Indignation" at 7 p.m. July 12 at the Greenwich Bow-Tie Criterion Cinemas, 2 Railroad Ave. The special screening will includea Q&A with James Schamus about his first effort in the director"s chair after a whizzy career as screenwriter, producer, industry suit and Columbia prof. Tickets can be reserved at jccgreenwich.org. less JCC Greenwich is presenting a sneak-preview of the film "Indignation" at 7 p.m. July 12 at the Greenwich Bow-Tie Criterion Cinemas, 2 Railroad Ave. The special screening will includea Q&A with James Schamus ... more Photo: Contributed, Contributed Photo

Indignation creates feel of unease beneath orderly 50s surface

In his first feature film as writer-director, James Schamus does something elusive and perhaps difficult even to describe. He creates a pervasive atmosphere of something not so unsettling or definable as dread, but rather something more vague and even ignorable if you choose to ignore it: unease. Theres a feeling here that something is unsafe, or could go wrong. Theres a feeling here of being a stranger at the party.

Based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth, Indignation takes place mostly in 1951 and tells the story of a Jewish kid from Newark, N.J., who goes away to school at a small, traditional college in Ohio.

This sounds like the premise for a heartwarming coming-of-age story, but the energy here is more sober. Already, as the film opens, one of the young mans friends is dead because he didnt go to college and therefore didnt get to defer his military service in Korea. One of the first scenes is of Marcus (Logan Lerman) attending the friends funeral.

A sense pervades not of a hostile world but of a careless one, in which fatal things can happen randomly or stupidly or for causes that dont become obvious until theyre inescapable. Marcus father (Danny Burstein), a butcher, is the character that most embodies this underlying atmosphere. In midlife, he has suddenly become neurotic with anxiety and dread, either because hes on the verge of a nervous breakdown or because he has developed a sixth sense about the true nature of things.

When Marcus escapes from Newark and goes to college, the screen is filled with sunshine and the atmosphere seems to lift, but not completely. There are other Jews at the college, but they travel in defined circles theres a Jewish fraternity, for example and everyone, regardless of religion, is expected to attend Christian church services at least 10 times each year. Other Jews on campus are willing to roll with it, but Marcus, who likes to keep to himself, is placid only on the surface. When pressed, he has a decided tendency toward indignation.

There are several standout scenes in Indignation, but one particularly memorable one is between Marcus and Dean Caudwell, the head of the university. The dean is played by Tracy Letts, the anarchic playwright (Killer Joe, August: Osage County), who specializes in playing narrow company men, authoritarians, in the movies and on television.

The dean here is a variation on the familiar Letts type: not really a bad guy, but rather someone easy enough to circumvent or appease. Yet, as brilliantly played by Lerman, theres something in Marcus that makes him unable and unwilling to connect with this man. Watching their first scene together is an uncomfortable and fascinating experience, as well as a great duet between two actors.

Of course, Marcus meets a girl. Her name is Olivia, and she is played by Sarah Gadon, who, in the pleated skirts and prim blouses created by costume designer Amy Roth, looks like the platonic ideal of a young college woman circa 1950. But like the 50s themselves, Olivia is much more troubled and complicated than she appears. Gadon is really rather wonderful in this film, plaintive and haunting, with all her nerve endings raw.

Indignation is haunting as well. Its hard to file it away. Instead, the story and treatment keep inviting us to circle back to it and wonder what the characters might have done here or should have done there. Like the best wines and the best films, theres a complexity to the finish, so that it reverberates with meanings beyond the obvious. Indignation has the disconcerting quality of truth and is an altogether adult piece of work.

Mick LaSalle is The San Francisco Chronicles movie critic. Email: mlasalle@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @MickLaSalle

Indignation

Starring Logan Lerman and Sarah Gadon. Directed by James Schamus. (R. 110 minutes.)

To see a trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELKsrUssyQE

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Man wearing Miami Dolphins hat found dead in field | WTVR.com

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HOPEWELL, Va. Police in Hopewell are investigating the citys first homicide of the year. A man was found shot to death in a field near the intersection of Elm Street and Westover Avenue at about 6 a.m. Friday.

The unidentified victim has a tattoo successful with a dollar sign inside a money bag on his right forearm, Hopewell Police said. He was wearing camo shorts, blue t- shirt with a black eight ball and white letters, a Miami Dolphins hat and New England Patriots lanyard.

The victim was described as a black male.

Police need help identifying the victim and investigating the crime.

Anyone with information was asked to call Detective Mark Polumbo at 804-541-2284 or Hopewell/Prince George Crime Solvers at 804-541-2202.

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Hope Solo Calls Sweden Cowards After USWNT Loses In Olympic Quarterfinal

Hope Solo had some harsh words for Sweden after their Olympic defeat

Hope Solo is no stranger to controversy both on and off the soccer field, but that didnt make her comments after the United States womens soccer team lost to Sweden in the teams Olympic quarterfinal matchup Friday any less shocking.

Team USAs quest for a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics ended with a 4-3 loss in penalty kicks, and when asked about what happened after the game, Solo had this to say to reporters:

Wow. Just wow.

The Olympics are supposed to bring out the best in athletes and sportsmanship, but that certainly wasnt the case with Solo after the stunning loss.

Thumbnail photo viaChristopher Hanewinckel/USA TODAY Sports Images

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Olympics: How Schooling could win Singapore"s first Olympic gold

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Although Schooling is the fastest man in the 100m fly this year, its still his idol Phelps who holds the current world (49.82sec) and Olympic record (50.58sec).

Singapores national assistant swimming coach Gary Tan said Schooling has what it takes to beat the big names hes up against on Saturday morning (Aug 13).

He said: If Phelps is coming next to him, he should focus on himself without thinking of anyone else.

Phelps does have good finishing, he"s having a heavy schedule which is taking a toll on his body but you still can"t rule him out.

Joseph should still focus on his own swim. He did beat Phelps in his heat.

How Schoolings personal best compares

Schoolings new personal best of 50.83sec would have landed him gold in London 2012 and a bronze in Beijing 2008.

Yet, the Singaporean has the potential to go even faster - between 50.13 and 50.25sec, according to converted times from his 100m fly swim at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) meet in February 2016.

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