Caeleb Dressel and the U. S. men’s 4×100-meter medley relay team concluded the Olympic swim meet with a world record Sunday morning. In the final swimming event of the Tokyo Games, the Americans beat a deep field from an outside lane in record time. Dressel ended up winning five gold medals in Tokyo, joining Michael Phelps, Mark Spitz and Matt Biondi as the only U. S. swimmers with at least five golds in a single Olympics. Follow along for live updates from the Games. With a lineup that featured three teenagers, the United States was just 0.13 seconds away from snaring a gold medal away from a talented Australian squad in the exciting women’s 4×100-meter medley relay final. In the end, Australia’s Cate Campbell zipped to the head of the field on the anchor leg and barely out-touched American Abbey Weitzeil at the wall. The Aussies set an Olympic record with their time of 3 minutes 51.60 seconds. The United States took silver with a time of 3:51.73, and Canada was third, finishing in 3:52.60. The Americans had won the medley relay at the previous two Olympics. They have placed either first or second in the event in every year since it debuted in 1960 (except for the 1980 boycott year). The U. S. coaches shuffled the roster and swapped in four new swimmers in for the final. Regan Smith swam the opening backstroke leg, followed by Lydia Jacoby on breaststroke, Torri Huske on butterfly and Weitzeil anchoring the freestyle leg. Smith, 19, had the United States in third place, and Jacoby, the 17-year-old surprise gold medal winner in the 100-meter breaststroke, quickly put the United States in first. Huske, 18, held that lead for Weitzeil, but Campbell swam her 100 meters in a 52.11 to nip Weitzeil at the wall. Weitzeil swam in the preliminary heat of the medley relay five years ago at the Rio de Janeiro Olympicsy, but the others were all swimming the race for a first time in Tokyo. Eighteen more people linked to the Olympics tested positive for the coronavirus, organizers announced Sunday. It’s the smallest number of positive tests in four days. Most of the positives continued to come from Tokyo 2020 contractors, who made up 11 of the new cases. Five were Games-related personnel, and there was one unidentified athlete and one volunteer. There have been 259 positive tests related to the Olympics since July 1. American Hannah Roberts won silver in the women’s BMX freestyle event Sunday morning. The 19-year-old Roberts is one of the top female BMX freestyle riders in the world and was a favorite to win a medal at these Olympics. She finished second to Britain’s Charlotte Worthington. Switzerland’s Nikita Ducarroz took the bronze. Roberts’s score of 96.10 was 1.40 behind Worthington. For 1,450 meters of the men’s 1,500-meter freestyle, Bobby Finke seemed content with his spot among the lead pack, a stroke or so off the lead for much of the race, comfortably windmilling his arms in third place.

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