US Men Edge France in 400 Free Relay
 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html

A few days after French swimmer Alain Bernard declared his team would "smash" the Americans in the finals, the Americans rallied in stunning fashion to helped silence their rivals.

yeah, the last 25m of that race was insane

It had me jumping around the living room cheering. That was great.

USA USA USA!!!!

Great race, they both smashed the world record. :thumbsup

lol they need to stop saying that. I remember the USA going down to Australia in 2000 in the 4x100 shortly after saying they'd smash Australia like guitars too. Serves them right I guess, was a good race, France had it.

That race was awesome. The drama was throughout. Amazing that 3 countries broke the world record in the race.

this was a great race, the us team was doing fine until the black guy jumped in.. i was like wtf, everyone knows black americans cant swim... it kinda like putting a white guy to run in the 100 m relay... but the us team still pulled it off, very exciting race.

That certainly was a memorable Olympic event. I couldn't believe when Lezak closed in at the end to take it.

He nearly drowned when he was 5.

Thats what France gets for talking smack, bitch slapped!