2024 Paris Olympics: United States beats Australia again as hotly contested medal battle in the pool concludes

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Record-setting wins from Bobby Finke and the women’s 4×100-meter medley relay team pulled the United States past Australia in the quadrennial duel between international rivals for the most swimming gold medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Finke won the men’s 1,500-meter freestyle for the second straight Olympics, trimming nearly nine seconds off his time from the Tokyo Games three years ago in establishing a world record of 14 minutes, 30.67 seconds to eclipse the 14:31.02 that had stood since 2012.

Two events later, the U.S. women took their turn on the world-record carousel with a 3:49.63 that easily beat the record of 3:50.40 that had stood since 2019 and far outdistanced also-rans Australia and China in second and third.

The team included Regan Smith, Gretchen Walsh, Lilly King and Torri Huske.

Only a handful of the events across nine days in the pool didn’t include an American or an Australian on the podium, and the U.S. finished with an overall 28-18 medals lead despite a surprise miss by defending champion Caeleb Dresel and the…

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