When I flipped at the 50, I really thought, ‘There’s no way.’ And then I changed and I said, ‘You know what, that is ridiculous. This is the Olympics and I’m here for the United States of America. I don’t care how bad it hurts.’ In like five seconds I was thinking all these things. I just got a supercharge and took it from there.
Jason Lezak, on the last 50 metres of the 2008 Olympic 400m freestyle relay. (Lezak chased down Alain Bernard of France over the final 25 metres — half the length of the pool — in a race so fast that two world records were set and the top five teams produced the five speediest times in history.)
12/08/08 at 12:39pm
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