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2008 4 x 100 Freestyle Relay
When he flipped and thrust off the wall, he was still half a body
length behind. That's a country mile in a sprint race. The United States was
going down and taking Phelps' quest for eight gold medals in a single Games with it.
No way.
But just as quickly as that glimmer of despair flitted through Lezak's mind,
it was shoved aside by fresh determination.
No way met no quit.
"I changed," he said. "I thought, 'That's ridiculous. I'm at the Olympic
Games, I'm here for the United States of America. I don't care how bad it hurts, I'm going after it.'
"I just got a super charge."
Lezak wanted his relay team to swim as a unit, not as four independent contractors brought together by nothing more than speed. He wanted to remind his teammates that being first on the heat sheet doesn't guarantee being first to the wall. "People always step up and do things out of the ordinary at the Olympics," he said. Now, after turning no way into no quit, Jason Lezak is the one who stepped
out of the ordinary and into newfound Olympic glory.
When he flipped and thrust off the wall, he was still half a body
length behind. That's a country mile in a sprint race. The United States was
going down and taking Phelps' quest for eight gold medals in a single Games with it.
No way.
But just as quickly as that glimmer of despair flitted through Lezak's mind,
it was shoved aside by fresh determination.
No way met no quit.
"I changed," he said. "I thought, 'That's ridiculous. I'm at the Olympic
Games, I'm here for the United States of America. I don't care how bad it hurts, I'm going after it.'
"I just got a super charge."
Lezak wanted his relay team to swim as a unit, not as four independent contractors brought together by nothing more than speed. He wanted to remind his teammates that being first on the heat sheet doesn't guarantee being first to the wall. "People always step up and do things out of the ordinary at the Olympics," he said. Now, after turning no way into no quit, Jason Lezak is the one who stepped
out of the ordinary and into newfound Olympic glory.