Emotional Caeleb Dressel spearheads U.S. to first Olympic gold in Paris
Paris (AFP) – A formidable United States spearheaded by an emotional Caeleb Dressel stormed to the men's 4x100m Olympic freestyle relay title on Saturday for the country's first gold in Paris.
The quartet of Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano, Hunter Armstrong and Dressel came home in 3min 09.28sec with Australia taking silver in 3:10.35 and Italy bronze in 3:10.70.
The Americans, who were reigning champions, had their work cut out after the opening leg with Chinese 100m world record holder Pan Zhanle putting in a scorching two laps.
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