Michael Phelps' Final London 2012 Race - Men's 4 x 100m Medley | London 2012 Olympic Games
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Published 2012-08-04
The USA team, featuring Michael Phelps in his final London 2012 race, win the gold medal in the 4 x 100m medley.
The team, consisting of Phelps, Matt Grevers, Brendan Hansen and Nathan Adrian took 1st place ahead of Japan in 2nd and Australia in 3rd.
Every edition has its own story to tell and will be remembered for some truly remarkable performances from sporting legends such as Jesse Owens, Abebe Bikila, Jean-Claude Killy, Nadia Comaneci, Katarina Witt, Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt, to name just a few.
Swimming Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final Full Replay from the Aquatics Centre at the London 2012 Olympic Games. - 4 August 2012
Swimming has featured on the programme of all editions of the Games since 1896. The very first Olympic events were freestyle (crawl) or breaststroke. Backstroke was added in 1904.
In the 1940s, breaststrokers discovered that they could go faster by bringing both arms forward over their heads. This practice was immediately forbidden in breaststroke, but gave birth to butterfly, whose first official appearance was at the 1956 Games in Melbourne. This style is now one of the four strokes used in competition.
Women's swimming became Olympic in 1912 at the Stockholm Games. Since then, it has been part of every edition of the Games. The men's and women's programmes are almost identical, as they contain the same number of events, with only one difference: the freestyle distance is 800 metres for women and 1,500 metres for men.
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All Comments (21)
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Nathan Adrian is a complete Monster.
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"The last time we will see Phelps..." But wait there's more!
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Everyone on the U.S. team had already won a medal this game, best swim country ever
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there was no freaking way Phelps teammates were going to let him down in this race and no way Phelps was not going to deliver....they all knew this race was going into the sports history books....way to go out on top Phelps!
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I'm team USA. Nathan Adrian is a star - he was simply unbelievable. He finished the race like a champ vs rookies. Phelps is all time great my fav champion.
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Michael Phelps is 6'4 and looks puny next to his mammoth of a teammate.
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back: GOLD breast: BRONZE fly: GOLD free: GOLD What a relay team!!!
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I end up laughing every time I watch this video ... out of sheer joy. The brilliance of the American team ... and especially Nathan's finish is spectacular. Hope to see some of you swimming again at the next Olympics! With all good wishes, Ken W. A.
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It was awesome for Japan to win Silver. Fantastic swim by Kitajima especially. I guess he was desperate to make up for his disappointment in the individual events. I think he swam his leg like 0.5s faster than Hansen. Great way to go out.
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Hahahaha! Olympic will now have to edit all their titles with Michael Phelps included, he's back!
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This video shows why Phelps is the greatest athlete in human history.
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JAPAN！！！ I'm proud of JPN team.
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3:45 skip to the race
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Phelps be like SIKE!! IM BACK
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Nathan destroyed everybody LOL
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4:56 he really butchered "Kitajima" 😂
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I'm just under 5'2 and the torsos alone of these swimmers are as tall as my entire height! They also have some muscular necks as well. Their workouts outside of the pool must be insane. BTW, I love the bright green shoes the US team is sporting.Waiting for Rio 2016!!!
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Farewell to the Greatest Olympian of All Time. Much Respect Mr. Phelps
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Track and field, speed skating, and track cycling are all organized the same exact way as swimming. Each distance event gets it's own gold medal. Completely fair, as each event is catered to a different type of athlete (sprinters, distance, etc). Phelps is just that good that he can race different distances and still win.
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1:33 "knowing this is the last time he will race for the USA at the Olympics" 😂😂😂 So hype for Rio
