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Dressel spearheads US to first Olympic gold in Paris

(UPDATE) PARIS — A formidable United States spearheaded by an emotional Caeleb Dressel stormed to the men's 4x100 m Olympic freestyle relay title on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) for the country's first gold in Paris.

The quartet of Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano, Hunter Armstrong and Dressel came home in 3 min 09.28 sec with Australia taking silver in 3:10.35 and Italy bronze in 3:10.70.