USA Upsets France in 4 x 100 Freestyle Relay

I rarely get excited about swimming but I love competition! Well, Team USA's 4x100 Freestyle captain, 32-year-old Jason Lezak (he's oldest man on the U.S. swimming team), showed great competitive spirit and pulled off one of the great comebacks in Olympic history. He saved the day in the men's 4-x-100 freestyle relay as the U.S. team beat the French (a.k.a. "We will smash the Americans") swim team in a neck-and-neck race. His teammate Michael Phelps has a shot at breaking the all-time record for gold medals in a single Olympic Game.

The victory also marked the first time an African American (Cullen Jones) swimmer has claimed gold in the 4x100 freestyle at the Olympics. Jones is the SECOND African American swimmer to win an Olympic medal. An ambassador for African-American swimmers, Jones wanted to shatter stereotypes one lap at a time, eager to spread his message that, yeah, black kids can swim too.Gold medal winners pictured above: Cullen Jones, Jason Lezak, Michael Phelps and Garrett Weber-Gale. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle / August 10, 2008)Note: Anthony Lee Ervin (born May 26, 1981 in Burbank, California). In 2000, he became the first swimmer of African American descent to make the US Olympic team. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, in Sydney he won the gold medal in the Men’s 50m Freestyle, finishing with the same winning time as Gary Hall Jr.Also at the Sydney Games, he won Silver in the 4x100m Freestyle.[flickr album=72157606619025691 num=6]