psyche
08-11-2008, 05:46 PM
US kicked the French arses !!! :lol:
Before the men's 4x100 relay final, French swimmer Alain Bernard said his team would "smash" the Americans. During Monday's race, they were about to. But Jason Lezak caught Bernard at the wall in an improbable finish to give the U.S. the gold and keep Michael Phelps' chase to eight alive.
http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2008/0810/oly_g_phelps2_331.jpg
http://d.yimg.com/a/p/sp/tools/med/2008/08/ipt/1218446823.jpg
Lezak lifts U.S. in ‘best ever’ relay
BEIJING – Jason Lezak churned like an unstoppable nuclear submarine, redlining to complete an impossible mission.
He pummeled the last 50 meters of water, dilating fans’ pupils and scorching their veins with adrenaline and sucking their torsos forward in their seats. He churned straight for Garrett Weber-Gale, who was cursing and howling and pounding on the starting blocks. He charged toward Cullen Jones, who jumped so frantically that he almost slipped and fell into the pool. And he roared past U.S. coach Eddie Reese, who was being squeezed nearly to death by one of his assistants.
And in the last meter of the greatest relay race in the history of the Olympics, Lezak grazed his outstretched fingertip on the wall just ahead of France’s Alain Bernard, who last week boasted of “smashing” the Americans in this event. When Reese tried to capture the moment later, he thought for a second and shook his head.
“It would have to be in the unbelievable category,” he said. “That’s the biggest word I know.”
Read more..... (http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/swimming/news;_ylt=ArsAhB88ACZ8rIbOR3L34JE5nYcB?slug=cr-swimbestever081108&prov=yhoo&type=lgns)
Olympics: Chronology of men's 4x100 freestyle relay world record
Chronology of the men's 4x100m freestyle relay world record:
3:19.26: USA, 05/08/82 Guayaquil (ECU)
(Cavanaugh, Leamy, McCagg, Gaines)
3:19.03: USA, 02/08/84 Los Angeles
(Cavanaugh, Heath, Biondi, Gaines)
3:17.08: USA, 17/08/85 Tokyo
(McCadam, Heath, Wallace, Biondi)
3:16.53: USA, 23/09/88 Seoul
(Jacobs, Dalbey, Jager, Biondi)
3:15.11: USA, 12/08/95 Atlanta (USA)
(Fox, Hudepohl, Olsen, Hall)
3:13.67: Australia, 16/09/2000 Sydney
(Klim, Fydler, Callus, Thorpe)
3:13.17: South Africa, 15/08/04 Athens
(Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townshend, Ryk Neethling)
3:12.46: USA, 19/08/06 Victoria (CAN)
(Michael Phelps, Neil Walker, Cullen Jones, Jason Lezak)
3:12.23: USA, 10/08/08 Beijing
(Nathan Adrian, Cullen Jones, Ben Wildman-Tobriner, Matt Grevers)
3:08.24: USA 11/08/08 Beijing
(Michael Phelps, Garrett Weber-Gale, Cullen Jones, Jason Lezak)
The Final race :D
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Before the men's 4x100 relay final, French swimmer Alain Bernard said his team would "smash" the Americans. During Monday's race, they were about to. But Jason Lezak caught Bernard at the wall in an improbable finish to give the U.S. the gold and keep Michael Phelps' chase to eight alive.
http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2008/0810/oly_g_phelps2_331.jpg
http://d.yimg.com/a/p/sp/tools/med/2008/08/ipt/1218446823.jpg
Lezak lifts U.S. in ‘best ever’ relay
BEIJING – Jason Lezak churned like an unstoppable nuclear submarine, redlining to complete an impossible mission.
He pummeled the last 50 meters of water, dilating fans’ pupils and scorching their veins with adrenaline and sucking their torsos forward in their seats. He churned straight for Garrett Weber-Gale, who was cursing and howling and pounding on the starting blocks. He charged toward Cullen Jones, who jumped so frantically that he almost slipped and fell into the pool. And he roared past U.S. coach Eddie Reese, who was being squeezed nearly to death by one of his assistants.
And in the last meter of the greatest relay race in the history of the Olympics, Lezak grazed his outstretched fingertip on the wall just ahead of France’s Alain Bernard, who last week boasted of “smashing” the Americans in this event. When Reese tried to capture the moment later, he thought for a second and shook his head.
“It would have to be in the unbelievable category,” he said. “That’s the biggest word I know.”
Read more..... (http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/swimming/news;_ylt=ArsAhB88ACZ8rIbOR3L34JE5nYcB?slug=cr-swimbestever081108&prov=yhoo&type=lgns)
Olympics: Chronology of men's 4x100 freestyle relay world record
Chronology of the men's 4x100m freestyle relay world record:
3:19.26: USA, 05/08/82 Guayaquil (ECU)
(Cavanaugh, Leamy, McCagg, Gaines)
3:19.03: USA, 02/08/84 Los Angeles
(Cavanaugh, Heath, Biondi, Gaines)
3:17.08: USA, 17/08/85 Tokyo
(McCadam, Heath, Wallace, Biondi)
3:16.53: USA, 23/09/88 Seoul
(Jacobs, Dalbey, Jager, Biondi)
3:15.11: USA, 12/08/95 Atlanta (USA)
(Fox, Hudepohl, Olsen, Hall)
3:13.67: Australia, 16/09/2000 Sydney
(Klim, Fydler, Callus, Thorpe)
3:13.17: South Africa, 15/08/04 Athens
(Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townshend, Ryk Neethling)
3:12.46: USA, 19/08/06 Victoria (CAN)
(Michael Phelps, Neil Walker, Cullen Jones, Jason Lezak)
3:12.23: USA, 10/08/08 Beijing
(Nathan Adrian, Cullen Jones, Ben Wildman-Tobriner, Matt Grevers)
3:08.24: USA 11/08/08 Beijing
(Michael Phelps, Garrett Weber-Gale, Cullen Jones, Jason Lezak)
The Final race :D
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