Hi, this is Josh Levine. I'm Slate's sports editor and the host of Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen.

It's August 12, 2016, and this is your Hang Up and Listen Olympics Extra.

On Thursday in Rio, Fiji won its first Olympic medal ever, thrashing Great Britain

43 to 7 to win gold in rugby 7s. That gives one the sense that if rugby sevens had been in the

games prior to 2016, Fiji would have a lot more medals. As expected, American gymnast Simone Biles

won the women's individual all

around. She beat her teammate, Ali Raceman, who got silver. She won by 1.759 points. That might

not sound like a lot, but this was a mismatch on the order of a rugby sevens match between Fiji

and Great Britain. Biles's margin of victory

was greater than that in every women's individual all-around final between 1980 and 2012

combined. And in the pool, Michael Phelps continued the blowout theme, winning the 200-meter

individual medley by two seconds over Koske

Hageno of Japan with a blue-haired Ryan Locti, finishing fifth in his final race in Rio.

Here's how the race sounded on Canadian television.

He has never, ever beaten Michael Phelps in this competition in the Olympic Games, but Ryan Locti is going for it.

Pereira is making his run, and Phelps doesn't look like he has this one in him.

Ryan Locti, going for his 13th career medal, saving the best for last.

Finally, he's going to do it. Ryan Lockhe is going to beat Michael

Phelps in this event, in the games, and Phelps might not even make the podium.

I apologize. I got my lanes mixed up.

That was Elliot Friedman of the CBC, who was confused about which lane, which American was

swimming in. After the race, he tweeted out, I'm sorry, everyone, I blew it, no excuses, which makes me feel

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