Kyle Chalmers storms home to salvage silver for Australia in men's 4x100m freestyle relay
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Australia's men's 4x100m freestyle relay team has missed out on gold in Paris, but came home strongly to take silver behind the USA.
The Aussies trailed for much of the first three legs, but Kai Taylor put them into medal contention in the third leg, before Kyle Chalmers stormed home to claim silver.
"That was probably the best relay I've ever seen from Kyle Chalmers," Ian Thorpe said in commentary for Nine.
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"That was probably the best relay I've ever seen from Kyle Chalmers," Ian Thorpe said in commentary. Getty
The US men were dominant in their victory, anchored by Caeleb Dressel.
It was the eighth medal of Dressel's career — all of them gold.
The two youngsters who beat Dressel at the US trials in the 100 freestyle — Jack Alexy and Chris Guiliano — started things off for the Americans. Then it was Hunter Armstrong turning the fastest leg of all to give Dressel a commanding lead to work with at the end.
He won going away in 3:09.28, pumping his fist and slapping hands with his teammates when he saw another No.1 beside their names.
Australia took the silver in 3:10.35, while the bronze went to Italy in 3:10.70.
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