She tied for first in a sixth event, the high jump.
Last year, a relaxed, smiling Woods, playing his sixth event back from knee surgery, expansively answered a series of questions.
With the javelin, her worst event, the sixth event, it seemed her chance of a medal had been lost.
The action kicked off Thursday morning with practice in Monaco, which on Sunday will be the site of the sixth event of the year counting toward the Formula One World Drivers Championship.
British Olympian McMillan, with crew Sarah Ayton, an Olympic double gold medallist, and trimmer Pete Greenhalgh, overcame some tricky currents to take a six-point lead at the halfway stage of the sixth event in the 2015 series.
"I'm not thinking about the money or medals or anything else; I'm just having fun racing," said Lochte, who will compete in four individual events and the 4x200-meter frelayyle relat athehe Games and possibly a sixth event, as a member of the 4x100-meter frelayyle relay team.
