America’ first gold medal of the 2024 Paris Olympics went to the 4×100-meter males’s freestyle relay staff in an exhilarating race.
When Caeleb Dressel, the anchor leg of the four-man staff, touched the wall, the US posted a ultimate time of three:09.28, beating out the staff’s Australian rivals by greater than a full second.
Australia earned silver with a time of three:10.05, whereas Italy edged out China for bronze at 3:10.70.
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Caeleb Dressel of the U.S. competes within the males’s 4x100m freestyle relay heats on day one of many Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Paris La Protection Area July 27, 2024, in Nanterre, France. (Al Bello/Getty Photos)
For Dressel, that is his eighth Olympic gold medal, however he wouldn’t have secured it with out the efforts of Chris Guiliano, Jack Alexy and Hunter Armstrong, who had a mixed one Olympic medal of any sort getting into the pool on Saturday.
Alexy, thought of to be the subsequent nice swimmer at 21, swam the primary leg of the relay, and he set the tone for the U.S.
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Gold medalists Caeleb Dressel, Hunter Armstrong, Chris Guiliano and Jack Alexy of the US have fun following the ultimate of the boys’s 4x100m freestyle relay on the Paris La Protection Area in Nanterre, Paris, July 27, 2024. (Sebastien Bozoni/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
Guiliano, additionally 21, adopted him and began to create an edge earlier than Armstrong created a niche between the competitors.
As Armstrong touched the wall, the veteran Dressel got here flying into the pool to run away with the race. Australia, Italy and China had been all making an attempt to play catch-up, however Dressel wasn’t giving them that chance.
Gold medalists Caeleb Dressel, Hunter Armstrong, Chris Guiliano and Jack Alexy of the U.S. have fun following the ultimate of the boys’s 4x100m freestyle relay swimming occasion on the Paris La Protection Area in Nanterre, Paris, July 27, 2024. (Sebasien Bozoni/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
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This victory is a tone setter for the remainder of the boys’s swimming competitions. Australia and China are U.S. rivals making an attempt to ascend to the world swimming throne.
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