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![]() In a race usually decided by a few hundredths of a second, he touched a half-body length ahead of the field in an Olympic record of 21.07 seconds. The final morning at the pool started with another romp in the 50 free - Dressel’s third individual title of the Games.Īfter diving in, he used his dolphin-like underwater technique to pop out of the water with the clear lead, just as he always does. Otherwise, his time in Tokyo was perfect.Ī win in 4x100 free relay. Not even Dressel could make up such a daunting deficit, though he did manage to pull the Americans up to fifth. In a race featuring two men and two women, the Americans tried a different lineup than anyone else, which left Dressel more than 8 seconds behind when he took over on the anchor freestyle leg. The only event Dressel failed to win all week was the new 4x100 mixed medley relay, though that was no fault on his own. Mirroring Dressel’s final day, McKeon won the 50 free and took the butterfly leg on the Aussies’ winning effort in the women's 4x100 medley relay. “It’s going to take a little bit to sink in. “It still feels very surreal,” said McKeon, a 27-year-old from Brisbane. The only other woman to win seven - in any sport - was Soviet gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya, who claimed two golds and five silvers at the 1952 Helsinki Games. Phelps, Spitz and Biondi are the only male swimmers to capture seven medals overall at an Olympics. Many of those swimming greats come up again to provide some perspective on McKeon’s performance in Tokyo. There’s also Mark Spitz (seven golds in 1972), East German Kristin Otto (six golds in 1988) and Matt Biondi (five golds, also in ’88). Michael Phelps did it three times, of course, highlighted by his record eight golds at the 2008 Beijing Games. He also cruised to a relatively easy victory Sunday in the 50 freestyle, pushing him into a truly elite club of swimmers who won at least five gold medals at one games. “I give myself a pat on the back and then I just want to go home, put it away and move forward,” Dressel said. She achieved the silver medal in 1.53.49 behind Australia’s Ariarne Titmus who continued her strong performance and won the olympic gold.He doesn’t plan to savor his triumph for long - which is right on par for a guy who said a few days ago that “swimming was a lot more fun when no one knew who I was.” He finished in 3.43.26 seconds.Īlso, in the 200m women freestyle Siobhan Haughey has represented Hong Kong and claimed the first medal for the country in swimming history. This was an unexpected result as the young swimmer won against a field of faster and older competitors. Trending topic news in this class involve teenager Ahmed Hafnaoui, from Tunisia, winning the 400m freestyle at the Olympic Games. This is also South Africa's first gold of the Games. She lived up to expectations as she beat King and Lazor from the United States and claimed the world record (2.18.95 seconds). New breaking news as Tatjana Schoenmaker of South Africa set a new world record in the women's 200-meter breastsroke. The US men's 4x100 swimming medley relay has not only won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics but also set a new world record at 3:26.78. With 37 total events spaced out from the 24th of July to the 1st of August, the Swimming Class in the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games has been going strong at the Tokyo Aquatics Center. 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As St Augustine wondered, ‘If she is adulterous, why is she praised? If chaste, why was she put to death?’ Perhaps to make sense of her death, Duncan added an anachronistic Christian framing device to his florid, verbose libretto, which has no relevance to the original Roman context – though, in fact, the libretto drafts confirm that it was Britten who proposed the much-criticised Christian epilogue which was intended to verify the redemptive nature of Lucretia’s death.Īnne Marie Stanley (Lucretia) Carolyn Holt (Bianca) © Camilla Greenwell ![]() But, Britten seems to have been less interested in the Roman soldiers and to have identified more strongly with Lucretia, not as a woman of flesh and blood, but as a site for tension between desire and violence whose beauty and virtue co-exist in an unstable alliance, as likely to incite lust and goodness. The first English Opera Group production, at Glyndebourne in 1946, was set in ancient Rome and utilised a rather stylised classical design. In the interlude in which the latter rides to Lucretia’s house, the Male Chorus seems to exult in the soldier’s machismo: “In blood furious,/ With desire impetuous/ Burns for its quietus / With speed aflame through sweat and dust/ The arrow flies straight as lust.” Moreover, the evidence of the libretto suggests that Ronald Duncan seems to have identified with the masculine power and virility of Tarquinius. Yes, it takes place during a period of conflict, and Britten brings the soldiers’ dangerous, inebriated revelry to life in his opening scenes. I’m not sure that ‘war’ is what Britten’s opera is really about, though. Mears seems concerned with both the consequences of the war and cataclysmic events that Britten had just lived through in 1946 and with the wars of our own time. ![]() It is a drama of toxic masculinity, female victimhood and of crimes, so often unreported and unpunished, here exposed.Īnne Marie Stanley (Lucretia) Anthony Reed (Collatinus) © Camilla Greenwell Premiered during a Britten Weekend at Snape Maltings, and shortly to be staged in the ROH’s Linbury Theatre, Mears’s production aims to dramatise the brutalisation of combatants and the weaponisation of violence against women in the context of war. In his new production of Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia (a co-production by Britten Pears Arts and the Royal Opera House), director Oliver Mears attempts to drag the Roman myth and Britten’s 1946 opera into the twenty-first century. According to Roman custom, her death restores her husband’s honour, acts as a catalyst for a Roman rebellion against the Etruscans and thus serves as a revolutionary act which leads to a more consensual form of political rule. Knowing that her violation – an assault on Collatinus’s ‘property’, one which is symbolic of the abuse of the ruled state itself – brings dishonour on her husband’s name, Lucretia sends a messenger to summon Collatinus home, makes a public confession and kills herself. Jealous of Collatinus’s boasting about Lucretia’s virtue and chastity, Tarquinius rides to Collatinus’s house and attacks Lucretia. ![]() ![]() The myth of Lucretia, first told by Livy, tells of the rape of Collatinus’s eponymous wife by his fellow soldier, Tarquinius, the son of the Etruscan king who rules over Rome. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would've felt a bit cheated if I had paid the full 9.99 for it though. Anyway, I got it for 99 cents and it was definitely worth the money. Disk space or download time may not be an issue for many, but this kind of game could be interesting for people with old systems, which don't always have that kind of space available. Though even at 900MB, it still seems much too big for a game like this. Using filesystem compression already reduces it to about 900MB, which means they didn't even try. I don't get how the download could be 3.5 gigabytes for a game that's only 3 hours long having just a handful of areas, barely any voice acting and such simple graphics. The one issue I have with this game is the ridiculous size. Puzzles are quite simple, but the timetravel mechanic, although hardly revolutionary at this point anymore, makes it fun. You only need a mouse with left click capability. The graphics and gameplay have this typical flash-game-style, meaning it's simple. Voice acting was also good, for the very little there was, sadly most feedback is through text, combined with an occasional awkward reaction sample. 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Despite a soft start through the first half of the adventure, the thoroughly impressive time-switching mechanic used for puzzles, as well as the engrossing. Probably the most interesting aspect of the game is the time jump mechanic that allows you to explore the same locations at different points in time, and jumping back and forth is required to solve some of the puzzles. It is striking that The Silent Age collects the best of a genre that seemed abandoned in recent years and it is that the graphic adventures marked a very. Probably the most interesting aspect of the game is the time jump mechanic that allows you to Pretty good point and click adventure game. Pretty good point and click adventure game. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While Molly is sleeping, Meyers picks up her phone by mistake and finds that Morris is trying to call her. 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