Video of Men’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay – Michael Phelps 2nd Olympics Gold Medal

The best swim race I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen hundreds).
And the most exciting race I’ve ever seen.

What a stunning race as so many things lead to it:

- The French were heavily favored and talked heavy trash
- Michael Phelps led off with an American Record
- Lezak was trailing by a full body-length going into the final 50 meters
- Lezak entered the water a second behind the world record holder
- Lezak went the fastest split ever swum in the 100 free
- He out-touched the Italians by 0.08
- The US smashed the world record by 4 seconds