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原文链接：http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/08/11/oly.phelps.ap/index.html
 
 
BEIJING, China (AP) -- By a fingertip, Michael Phelps is still on course for eight gold medals. He can thank Jason Lezak for getting him No. 2.
 Michael Phelps poses with the gold medal for the Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay at the National Aquatics Center.
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The oldest man on the U.S. swimming team pulled off one of the great comebacks in Olympic history Monday morning, lunging to the wall just ahead of France's Alain Bernard in a race so fast it actually erased two world records.
Few sporting events live up the hype -- this one exceeded it. The 32-year-old Lezak was nearly a body length behind the massive Bernard as they made the final turn, but the American hugged the lane rope, drafting off the Frenchman and stunningly overtaking him on the very last stroke.
Watching on deck, Phelps let out a resounding "Yeaaaaaah!" and thrust both arms toward the roof of the Water Cube. His quest to break Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals had survived what will likely be its toughest test.
The Americans shattered the world record set by their "B" team the previous evening in the preliminaries, touching with a time of 3 minutes, 8.24 seconds -- nearly 4 full seconds below the 15-hour-old mark of 3:12.23.
"I was going nuts," Phelps, who swam the leadoff leg and then became the team's biggest cheerleader, told NBC. "As soon as (Lezak) came off that last wall, I started going crazy. We're a team. We went in as a team and now we're exiting as a team -- and we're going out with that gold that we needed to get back."
The Americans won the 400 free relay at seven straight Olympics, but watched the Australians and South Africans take gold at the last two games.
"I've been on the last two relays where we come up short," Lezak said. "To be honest with you I got really tired of losing."
Bernard was the world record holder in the 100, but he lost that mark as well. Australia's Eamon Sullivan broke the individual record by swimming the leadoff leg in 47.24 -- ahead of Bernard's mark of 47.50.
While the Americans whooped it up on deck, Bernard clung to the wall, his head down. The swimmer who had talked confidently of beating the Americans was the last one to leave the pool.
The French were second in 3:08.32 -- eight one-hundredths of a second behind. Australia took the bronze in 3:09.91. In fact, the top five all went below the record set Sunday.
一指之差－－菲尔普斯的梦想得以继续
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一指之差，菲尔普斯得以继续为了他的八金梦而奋斗。他应该感谢Jason Lezak帮他夺得了第二金。
作为美国游泳队里年龄最大的队员，在星期一早上胜利上演奥运史上最伟大的逆转，在法国运动员Alain Bernard 前面冲向了终点，
并刷新两项世界纪录。
很少有体育事件会夸大－－但这次远远不止如此。32岁的Lezak在最后一次转身时还落后Bernard 近一个身长，但他紧贴着赛道绳缆，
紧追着法国队，在最后一游中漂亮地完成超越。
在池边观看的菲尔普斯大叫着“耶！！！”并向空中展开双臂挥舞着。他希望打破Mark Spitz七金记录的愿望得以继续，这应该是
赢得最艰险的一战了。
美国B队在前一天晚上的预赛中就以3分8秒24打破了世界纪录,比刚保持了15个小时的3分12秒23的纪录快了将近4秒。
“我高兴地快疯了，”菲尔普斯对NBC记者说道，他游的是第一棒，随后就一直在为队友呐喊助威。
“当Lezak最后一个转身时，我就开始疯狂了。我们是一个团队。我们进去时是一个团队现在出来了仍然是一个团队－－我们需要
那枚金牌。”
美国队已赢得了7届400米自由泳接力比赛，但澳大利亚和南非队在前两届赢得了金牌。
“我参加了前两次比赛，我们都发挥不足，”Lezak 说道，“说实话，我真的不想再输了。”
Bernard是100米的世界纪录保持者，但他的纪录也作古了。澳大利亚的Eamon Sullivan 在第一棒时就游出了47.24的个人纪录，
比Bernard的47.50要快。
当美国人在游泳池大肆庆祝时，Bernard靠着池壁，埋下了头。这个曾在赛前扬言要打败美国队的游泳选手最后一个离开了游泳池。
法国队的成绩是3分8秒22,只比美国队慢了8%秒。澳大利亚以3分9秒91取得了铜牌。实际上，前五名都打破了之前的世界纪录。
译者注：
我也看了上午的比赛，那叫一个激动人心啊！就在最后小半程时我还在想，菲尔普斯的八金梦看来不行了，结果！那个第四棒选手硬是赶上了法国选手，在最后几乎同时到达，只是他的指尖比法国队先碰到了终点！
菲尔普斯非常之激动，我都受感染了！之前看他个人比赛时拿第一块金牌时还觉得他好腼腆，结果这个金牌来得确实很惊险，他激动得乱叫，哈哈。真让人为他感到高兴！
不过，法国队确实很郁闷，要到手的金牌被抢走了！希望他们不要太沮丧就好。
这样的比赛真是扣人心弦！
因为自己看了比赛，印象很深刻，所以将这篇报道翻译上来了。
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