Best Photos from the 2016 Rio Olympics

Best Photos from the 2016 Rio Olympics | Aug. 12

Michael Phelps prepares to compete in the 100m Butterfly, a race in which he would tie for a silver medal.

Great Britain's Marcus Ellis returns during a doubles qualifying badminton match.

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Thirty-five-year-old Anthony Ervin made history by winning the 50m Freestyle on Friday, becoming the oldest individual swimming gold medalist in the Olympics.

Michelle Carter celebrates after becoming the first American woman to win gold in the shot put at an Olympics.

An emotional Katie Ledecky after winning her fourth gold medal at the Rio Games, this time in the 800m Freestyle.

The U.S. women's soccer team suffered a shocking loss to Sweden in a quarterfinal match on Day 7, leaving the Americans to wonder what went wrong and the Swede's celebrating into the night.

Team Sweden celebrates its 1-1 (4-3 shootout) win over the United States during a quarterfinal soccer match.

India's Chandanda Thimmaiah (left) and Canada's Matthew Sarmento vie during a field hockey match.

Kyrie Irving is cornered by Serbia's Stefan Markovic, Nikola Jokic and Milos Teodosic in a game in which the U.S. won by only three points.

Puerto Rico's Monica Puig celebrates after winning a singles semifinal tennis match against Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3.

Miles Chamley-Watson of the United States celebrates against Artur Akhmatkhuzin of Russia during a Foil Team semifinal bout.

Madeline Dirado of the United States celebrates winning gold in the 200m Backstroke.

Akela Jones of Barbados competes during the Heptathlon High Jump.

Australia's forward Aron Baynes defends against China's forward Yi Jianlian.

Yang Haeun of South Korea returns a shot against Romania.

Brazil's Robson Conceicao celebrates winning against Uzbekistan's Hurshid Tojibaev in a quarterfinal bout.

Russia's Alexey Cheremisinov celebrates after winning a team foil semifinal bout against the U.S.

David Andersen of Australia takes a shot over China's centre Wang Zhelin and forward Yi Jianlian.

Indonesia's Mohammad Ahsan (left) and Indonesia's Hendra Setiawan return to Japan during their doubles qualifying badminton match.

Doubles action in badminton.

Madeline Dirado of the United States celebrates winning gold in the 200m Backstroke.

Simone Manuel takes part in the 50m Freestyle semifinal, a day after winning her first gold medal.

April Ross of the U.S. eyes a ball during a beach volleyball round of 16 match against Italy.

Athletes competes at team table tennisin Rio de Janeiro.

Ukraine's Andrii Govorovstarts the men's 50-meter final.

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