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‘The race we should never have won’: Sydney’s relay kings ride again – Sydney Morning Herald
Twenty years after their historic 4x100m freestyle victory over the US at the Sydney Olympics, Michael Klim, Chris Fydler, Ashley Callus and Ian Thorpe reflect on a race that stopped a nation and a bond that will last forever in this oral history.
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To a man, the quartet of Michael Klim, Chris Fydler, Ashley Callus and Ian Thorpe can’t recall a wave of noise like the one that descended on them in the final stages of the 4x100m freestyle on night one of the Sydney Olympics.
As a 17-year-old, Thorpe thundered home to overhaul American ace Gary Hall jnr, a sheet of white water “three feet high” soaring from his famous feet as they powered him to the wall like a freight train, the crowd roc…
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