The USA swim workforce completed the ultimate day of competitors within the pool with a pair of gold medals and world data to go along with them.
Lengthy-distance freestyler Bobby Finke delivered the primary of two gold medals within the 1500-meter freestyle – the one gold medal gained by a male swimmer on Group USA – and a brand new world report of 14:30.67.
Bobby did it to Finn. 🫡
With a world report time, he efficiently defended his Olympic title within the males’s 1500m free!
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Katie Ledecky — whose prowess in long-distance working throughout 4 Olympic Video games has made her probably the most adorned American feminine Olympian in historical past — could not comprise her pleasure at Fink, who swam underneath her coach and former Olympian Anthony Nesty. .
Confused Katie Ledecky cheers on Bobby Fink’s 1500 win, wields a cowbell like a weapon, giving me life pic.twitter.com/rmwolR9Ub9
— Steve Cavendish (@scavendish) August 4, 2024
The boys’s 4×100 medley relay workforce gained the silver medal—the one time apart from the 1980 Moscow Olympic boycott {that a} U.S. males’s workforce didn’t take house gold in that occasion.
The workforce misplaced to China in a significant upset regardless of a powerful cut up of four-hundredths of a second from Caleb Dressel on his butterfly leg – 49.41 – underneath his personal world report within the 100m butterfly, set in Tokyo in 2021.
🇺🇸 Caleb Dressel is popping on the turbo for the workforce🚀 #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/8lnxhc3zlj
— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) August 4, 2024
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The Video games ended on one other excessive for Group USA as the ladies’s medley relay workforce — Reagan Smith (backstroke), Lily King (breaststroke), Gretchen Walsh (butterfly), and Tori Husk (freestyle) — gained gold by a decisive margin and one other in set course of. World report.
Group USA capped it off with gold. 🥇👏
Within the final swim #ParisOlympicsUSA dominates girls’s 4x100m medley relay! pic.twitter.com/ISAvsNwyef
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