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...coach. "I'm one of the select few athletes who have performed at their best at the Olympic Games," he said afterward. "It's one of the things I wanted to do." The other thing he wanted to do on Saturday was to help his teammates - Michael Klim, Chris Fydler and Ashley Callus - break the U.S. lock on the 4 x 100 freestyle relay...
...Before the Games, Gary Hall Jr. said the Americans would smash the locals "like guitars." A world-record start by Klim (48.18 sec.) set up the Australian victory, but Thorpe sealed it. "I was hoping [Thorpe] would find something. I knew he was the fitter guy of the two and he just paced perfectly," said Klim. Hall got the U.S. ahead at the final turn, but Thorpe kept his head cool and his stroke smooth to bring home the race in a new world-record time of 3:13.67. "The last 50 m were rather painful," said Hall. "This...