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jdsooner
8/10/2008, 11:13 PM
Lezak overhauls French to win relay gold for US

BEIJING (AP)—Jason Lezak outtouched Alain Bernard of France at the wall Monday to give the United States a victory in the 400-meter freestyle relay and keep alive Michael Phelps’ bid for eight Olympic gold medals.

Lezak overtook the Frenchman to win in 3 minutes, 8.24 seconds, breaking the world record of 3:12.23 set by the Americans in Sunday’s preliminaries.

France took the silver in 3:08.32. Australia earned the bronze in 3:09.91.

Phelps’ hopes of breaking Mark Spitz’s record of seven golds in a single games appeared doomed when the French took over the lead at the 250 mark. They were 4.03 seconds under world-record pace at 350 meters before Lezak, the oldest American male swimmer at 32, rallied over the closing strokes.

USA

soonerscuba
8/10/2008, 11:18 PM
Pretty much the last two centuries of history could be summed up in those four words... weird.

Soonrboy
8/10/2008, 11:23 PM
That was AWESOME to watch. The second black swimmer in history to win a gold medal. He swam the third leg.

texas bandman
8/10/2008, 11:39 PM
Most exciting race I've ever seen. What a finish!!

Sooner Born Sooner Bred
8/10/2008, 11:46 PM
The best part of this story is that the Frenchies were talking **** before the race. One of them said they came to the Olumpics to "smash" the United States/ That made the win all the more sweet.

birddog
8/10/2008, 11:48 PM
shouldn't the special olympics be call the O'limpics?

i'm just sayin.

Collier11
8/11/2008, 09:02 AM
BEST RACE EVAR!!!