Swimming: Dressel bags more gold in men's 4x100 free relay
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Gold medallists Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano, Hunter Armstrong and Caeleb Dressel pose with their medals after winning the men's 4x100m freestyle relay.
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PARIS - Caeleb Dressel collected his eighth career Olympic gold medal, and a first of the Paris Games for the US team, when he anchored them to a second successive 4x100 metres freestyle title on July 27.
Australia took silver and Italy the bronze, with China missing out on the medals in fourth place.
Jack Alexy, Chris Giuliano, Hunter Armstrong and Dressel combined in a time of three minutes 09.28 seconds to beat Australia by 1.07 in the last final of a raucous opening night at the La Defense Arena.
Matt King and Ryan Held swam in the morning heats but were switched out in favour of Alexy and Giuliano for the final. King and Held will also receive gold medals.
Dressel won five golds at Tokyo in 2021 and two in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. REUTERS
