“I talked to my coach, and he said the ideal position for us was to finish second behind the U.S. and they beat the world record and they come in as favorites tomorrow and tomorrow morning we take all that they have.”
Frederick Bousquet of the French 4x100 freestyle relay team. Here is how Phelps responded:
The US won by eight one-hundredths of a second in a fantastic comeback over the “heavily favored French.”