What an exciting swimming presence the US had at the 2008 Olympics! I'm bummed it's over.
The United States won a total of 31 medals in swimming:
- 12 Gold
- 9 Silver
- 10 Bronze
Phelps 8 gold medal goal which accounted for approximately 26 percent of the US medals earned at the Water Cube in Beijing.
- Phelps shares the gold medal with the 4x100 Freestyle Relay Team of Cullen Jones, Weber-Gale, and Lezak
- Phelps (swimming fly) also shares the gold with the Medley Relay Team of Peirsol (Backstroke), Hansen (Breaststroke) and Lezak (Freestyle)
- Phelps shares the gold with the 4x200 Free Relay Team of Lochte, Berens and Vanderkaay
- Ryan Lochte 200 Back
- Phelps 400IM
- Phelps 200 Free
- Natalie Coughlin 100 Back
- Aaron Peirsol 100 Back
- Phelps 200 Fly
- Phelps 100 Fly
- Phelps 200 IM
Dara Torres had an outstanding meet and has inspired many adults to take up (or get back into) swimming.
There were several photo finishes incuding the Phelps/Cavic 100 Fly and Dara Torres' 100 Free Lezak's impressive anchor relay leg of the 4x100 Men's Freestyle was awe inspiring.
I hope the excitement of the swimming events at the Beijing Olympics brings a greater focus on swimming in general and I am looking forward to more youth swimmers getting invloved.
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