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France rocketed to victory in the Olympic 4x100 meter freestyle relay today,with a 3:09.93 winning time leaving the U.S. team in their wake. A day after Michael Phelps failed to get on the Olympic medal podium for the first time since 2000,he swam much better. But it didn’t matter. Silver in the 400 meter freestyle relay doesn’t matter. Ryan Lochte,who swamped the field Saturday to win the 400 individual medley and proclaim “this is my year,” blew the United States’ lead in the last 30 meters of his anchor leg. The more uncomfortable questions that followed involved Chinese teenager Shiwen Ye. On Saturday,Ye competed in the 400 m IM. Her final 50 metres of freestyle swimming were completed in 28.93. In the parallel men’s event, Lochte’s final 50 was completed in 29.10. This may be the only power event in world sport where a woman — and a kid — is outpacing the men. Asked about whether Lochte was catching any flack for that,Phelps replied: “She outswam me,too. We were all pretty shocked.”

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