He makes it look easy right now. And the United States is onto the quarterfinals. This was a tremendous routine. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games with matt lauer live from rio de janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a split edition from rio and new york. Can we start by saying its a Beautiful Day. Can we show you a shot of the most decorated u. S. Woman in olympic track and field history. That is Allyson Felix. She now has [ applause ] a dramatic finish to the 400 also it was the finish that people will be watching for a long, long time. It was a dive that ended in basically a photo finish. Today is also the final day of gymnastics. Simone biles is looking to bounce back on the floor. She finally proved by the way that shes human, all right. She lost her balance on the beam. Ended you have to give it to 16yearold Laurie Hernandez. She made the most of her lone individual eve
So, first of all well get to lochte in a minute. Cody miller, of course, our olympian who has medalled here in rio. Were so proud of him. The feeling is mutual. Went on national tv and here is the shoutout he gave to las vegas. Take a look. Okay. I want to say thank you to all of my friends and family back home in las vegas. Wouldnt be here with two medals without you guys. Friends in indiana, love you guys. My badger, my badger team in new york city. Love you guys. Love you, john. Everybody. My whole family, my mom, my sister katie, and my fiance and my best friend james, cheering me on every day. Its been great and mike and ray my coaches. [laughter] cant forget them. Reporter all right. So basically, everybody hes ever met. But when we hear an olympian las vegas, we have to make sure you hear that and its echoed far and wide in Southern Nevada. All right. So lets talk about what the latest is on that very bizarre ryan lochte situation. Of course, robbed in the middle of the night. P
Along with her fellow final five team members. Friday, august 12th, 2016. This has been her destiny all along. One more time for the ages. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games. With matt lauer, lo i hav Rio De Janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone, welcome to a special split edition of today, rio and new york, the games of the 31st olympiad and as you can see behind us its dark and rainy and windy on copacabana beach, but it doesnt matter because yesterday was bright and cheery and fantastic for team u. S. A. It was crazy as we talked swimming i have a feeling if we mark our calendars in about nine months there will be a lot of sinones named as babies. Simone biles turned in one of the most impressive performances ever to win gold in the womens all around. Right on her heels of course teammate aly raisman who told the as they finished their floor routine. We will talk to simone, aly, the rest of t
The u. S. Women win gold in the 4x2. That was beautiful thats a gold medal for kirsten armstrong. Announcer this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games with matt lauer live from Rio De Janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Welcome to a special split edition of today. Thursday, morning, day 6 of the rio olympics. Im matt lauer along with hoda kotb. Savannah is in new york. Well talk to her in a one second. You know what we refuse to do back on copacabano beach. What is that . We refuse to do a show look at who we have today. That is Alison Schmidt part of that gold medal relay team in the 4x200 free and josh prenot is alongside her. Congratulations. Also here, theres more, Michael Hixon and sam dorman they teamed up and took silver in synchronized diving, and well ask what it is like to compete in what is a big story here. The green water in the pool. Its so much fun to watch athletes and the crowd get to hang out a little bit. All hanging out ov
Monday, august 15, 2016. Thats all there is to it. It doesnt matter who gets a lead. They are going to get caught. And she hammers it home. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games. With matt lauer, live from rio de janeiro, brazil, and savannah plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today on this monday morning, another Beautiful Day at the beach, im matt lauer along with hoda kotb. Well check in with savannah in a moment. If you are looking to rub elbows with the greatest swimmers in the world this is where you want to do it today. Yeah, we are talking about the greatest olympian of all time, just arrived here a few be with us. Katie ledecky is here, rewriting the record books and simone manuel. So many more of those Medal Winners are here from team usa, were going to talk to all of them coming up. Also were going to talk about the scary incident the last 24 hours for another group of swimmers including ryan lochte. They were robbed but luckily unharme