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On August 4, in the men’s 4x100m medley relay at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Chinese team ended the US team’s record of 15 consecutive gold medals in the Olympics.
Pan Zhanle won first place with a remarkable performance from Florent Manadou who led in the last 100 meters.
The Chinese athlete accelerated his paddling speed and touched the wall first before American athlete Armstrong, who won the silver medal for the US team in this Olympics.
France rounded out the podium in third place, so Leon Marchand was unable to win his fifth gold medal, and Britain and Adam Peaty were excluded from the podium in an action-packed event.
The Chinese team’s victory ended the absolute dominance of the United States team, which had participated in this event 15 times and won the gold medal (it did not participate in Moscow in 1980). The Chinese swimmers who won gold medals were: Xu Jiayu, Qin Haiyang, Sun Jiajun, Pan Zhanle
The event began in 1960 and last Sunday was historic for the Olympics as the United States’ streak was ended by China.
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China stunned the United States on Sunday by winning the gold medal in the men’s 4×100-meter medley relay, a race the Americans have won in every Olympics except the boycotted 1980 Moscow Games. The medley relay was added to the Olympics in 1960.
The winning team included Qin Haiyang and Sun Jiajun, both of whom were among nearly two dozen swimmers at the Tokyo Olympics who tested positive for banned substances but were allowed to compete after a Chinese investigation ruled they had consumed contaminated food.
But the real star of the Chinese team was Pan Zhanle, who set a world record when he won the 100m freestyle earlier and passed America’s Hunter Armstrong in the final leg to touch down in 3:27.46.
The United States took silver in 3:28.01, France took bronze in 3:28.38, and Leon Marchand won his fifth medal of the Games and four individual golds.
British star Adam Peaty, whose team missed out on a medal in fourth place, slammed the system that allows Chinese swimmers to compete in the Olympics. “If you touch someone’s arm and you know you’re cheating, then you can’t win, right?” Peaty said.
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