Group USA has its first gold medal in Paris.
Swimmers Jack Alexy, Hunter Armstrong, Caeleb Dressel and Chris Guiliano rolled to a victory within the males’s 4x100m freestyle relay on Saturday to seize Group USA’s first gold of the 2024 Olympics.
The 2 kids who beat Dressel on the U.S. trials within the 100m freestyle, Alexy and Guiliano, began issues off for the Individuals. Then it was Armstrong turning the quickest leg of all to present Dressel a commanding result in work with on the finish.
The quartet of Individuals posted a time of three:09.28 to win a 3rd straight Olympic title within the occasion. Australia completed in 3:10.25 to take silver and Italy earned bronze with a time of three:10.70.
America bought the higher of Australia after the Aussies received two of the primary three swimming medal occasions at Paris La Protection Area earlier Saturday. Ariarne Titmus repeated as champion within the girls’s 400m freestyle, the place Katie Ledecky received bronze, and Australia received gold within the girls’s 4x100m freestyle relay, the place Group USA earned silver.
“There’s no higher strategy to end an evening like that,” U.S. swimming legend Michael Phelps stated on the printed. “To hammer house like that, make a press release to complete Day 1 — and a fairly large assertion, too. We thought that race was going to be fairly shut. We obliterated that subject.”
Dressel, who received 5 gold medals on the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Video games, now owns eight profession medals — all of them gold. He is simply the third athlete to ever seize not less than eight Olympic medals which are all gold, becoming a member of Usain Bolt and Ray Ewry. And Dressel can nonetheless add to his complete in Paris through the 50m freestyle and 100m butterfly.
In the meantime, Alexy, Armstrong and Guiliano every picked up their first Olympic medal.
Ryan Held and Matt King will even obtain medals after serving to the U.S. qualify for the 4x100m relay closing in Saturday morning’s prelims. Held and King have been swapped out in favor of Alexy and Giuliano for the ultimate.
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Individuals Jack Alexy, Hunter Armstrong, Caeleb Dressel and Chris Guiliano received the boys’s 4×100 freestyle relay for Group USA’s first gold within the Paris Olympics.
