He 'SURFED' His Rival's WAVE!

This is the story of the most epic relay in swimming’s history. The fastest swimmers vs the fastest team! There are a lot of ways to tell this story but this is how I saw it.

00:00 - 2008 supersuits and the relay
00:43 - Order of swimmers in the relay
01:35 - The big problem!
01:56 - Michael Phelps vs Eamon Sullivan
02:27 - Fred Bousquet
02:34 - Alain Bernard
02:41 - Jason Lezak
03:35 - Surfing the wave!
04:27 - 4 x 100 free relay in 2012
05:01 - Ryan Lochte vs Yannick Agnel
05:37 - 4 x 100 free relay in 2016
06:00 - Florent Manaudou
06:09 - Nathan Adrian

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sources:

Secrets to breaking a Michael Phelps record - Caeleb Dressel | Top Performers

Phelps and Team USA break the 4x100m Freestyle World Record at Beijing 2008 | Throwback Thursday

France Win Gold In 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final | London 2012 Olympics

Rio 2016 4 x 100 Freestyle Relay - Underwater Camera

USA takes gold in Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

The Greatest Relay Swim Ever

Inside with Brett Hawke: Fred Bousquet

[JimmyJayJunior]

This video made me appreciate swimming way more. My ex gf was a competitive swimmer in her teens. You don't realise how majestic and athletic it is until you see it through that underwater camera 😮

[vincenzodelavega]

Looks easy but really it isn’t. To take advantage of the waves, you need to be behind someone less than a meter behind, and hoping this person is not saving some energy on the last 15 meters.

[choiyongjae]

5:02 "Phelps did his thing underwater."

Perfect way to describe Michael Phelps.

[Surtac]

Wow he moved over so the guy next to him couldn’t ride his wave, nice!

[Patrone]

Excited for this years' Olympics, the gamesmanship is reaching incredible levels! Never noticed the wave surfing before, going to watch for that.

[saltybrackishfresh]

LEZAK would’ve been 45.99 if he didn’t look up on the finish 🤯🤯🤯

[ChiValryWu]

Man, I remember watching this live. The excitement we had on the swim team was outstanding!

[gametime]

This was my favorite swimming race ever. Several teams obliterated the world record in this race. Lezak was absolutely stunning with that comeback. Never seen that kind of acceleration in swimming. What a great story.

[SuperHello]

Lezak almost didn't win because he looked up on the finish.

[keatonhatch]

Glad I watched to the end. I don’t know swimming but I was like why doesn’t the lead swimming just move away from the swimmer in 2nd to not give them an advantage

[HemstitchedIrony]

Lezak's is still the fastest 100m LCM relay split ever. INSANITY.

[ayushbanerjee]

Never knew that there was so much strategy in swimming. Go Team USA 🇺🇸

[yaminobia]

I used to swim but I wasn't very fast or extremely interested in it. Watching your videos has made me want to try swimming again with different techniques

[williamlawrenson]

This is something we do in canoe/kayak racing frequently except at sprint regattas where the rules say we must stay in the middle of our lanes for 200, 500 and 1000m races. Groups will work together to either catch leaders or break away from weaker paddlers, changing places to to take turns doing the work or having a rest. Best rest place, back of the diamond in a group of 4. Our club does it regularly in training, to upskill athletes and to enable weaker paddlers to join in with faster people.

[laytonN]

I watched every one of Michaels races that year. And that relay was the most insane thing i had ever watched live

[hyperactivelyx]

I've been watching your videos for over a year and your content is amazing. Keep up the good work!

[NickMaovich]

I don't know who will win in Tokyo, but I definitely won when I discovered this channel

[Oscar]

That was one of the greatest moments in Olympic history by Jason lezak

[omarmoka]

Dude, sullivan is unbelievable . He breaks a world record every time he swim this race . He show it as a piece of cake 🎂

[emperorsascharoni]

France changing the order for a better winning picture to get a top class losing picture is hilarious.