{"id":86258,"date":"2016-08-12T11:15:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T18:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=86258"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:15:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T18:15:40","slug":"rio-olympics-team-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/rio-olympics-team-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Phelps, Simone Biles, Simone Manuel Make History at Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whew! Team USA has been\u00a0<em>killin&#8217;<\/em> it at the Rio Olympics this past week, and we couldn&#8217;t be prouder.<\/p>\n<p>From the first African American woman swimmer to win gold to Team USA crushing the competition in gymnastics, we&#8217;ve got your recap:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Phelps<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetorch\/2016\/08\/09\/489404931\/michael-phelps-and-katie-ledecky-add-to-gold-medal-totals-with-close-wins-in-rio\" target=\"_blank\">won his 25th Olympic\u00a0medal<\/a>\u00a0as part of the men&#8217;s 4&#215;200 freestyle relay. No biggie. Oh, and he also defended his 200 meter individual medley gold as well. Also, no biggie.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/static-blog.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/12111517\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-11.11.15-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-86280\" src=\"https:\/\/static-blog.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/12111517\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-11.11.15-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-12 at 11.11.15 AM\" width=\"600\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Simone Manuel\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-37057236\" target=\"_blank\">became the first African American woman swimmer<\/a> to win gold after she tied with Canada&#8217;s Penny Oleksiak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simone Biles\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/08\/11\/sport\/simone-biles-usa-gymnastics-rio\/?sr=google_news\" target=\"_blank\">brought home the gold<\/a> in women&#8217;s all-around gymnastics while teammate Aly Raisman secured the silver medal. Oh, and Zac Efron and Biles\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/simone-biles-zac-efron-flirting-rio-olympics_us_57ab7d25e4b0db3be07cddca\" target=\"_blank\">are getting pretty flirty<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Team USA currently has 38 medals, 16 of which are gold, and we know that number is only going to go up.<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"Whew! Team USA has been\u00a0killin' it at the Rio Olympics this past week, and we ...","author":422344,"featured_media":86260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/12102727\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-10.24.10-AM.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/12102727\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-10.24.10-AM.jpg","formated_date":"August 12, 2016","category_name":"Fitness","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113835\/health-2.svg","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#c4dd5d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}