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Summer Olympics 2016: Winners and Losers in Rio on Day 7

Every day of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio has yielded something completely unimaginable, but Day 7 was especially packed with wild winners and losers.

Perhaps the craziest of all came in the final medal event of the night when USA's Anthony Ervin took gold in the 50-meter freestyle—an incredible 16 years after winning the same event in Sydney. And he was even faster as a 35-year-old (21.4s) than he was as a 19-year-old (21.98s).

(Did you hear that, Michael Phelps? People can still win gold at 35! Tokyo is calling your name!)

Ervin was one of three U.