The New York Times reports:
[Alain Bernard's] teammate, Frederick Bousquet, who split a blistering 46.63 on the third leg, said, “We believed in the gold medal until the end.” He added, “The touch made the difference and experience overcame talent.”
Did everyone get that? If America's Leading Blog™ may help translate, Bousquet's saying of the American team: "Only their touch at the wall was better than our whole 4-man relay" and "We lost but we're more talented."
Congratulations, France, officially, from America's Leading Blog™.
At being French you once again take the gold.
Have a drink on ALB:
XO,
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UPDATE—the story reported above gets better. The French not only lost like frenchmen, small f, they also talked shit prior to the event they lost. Mostly by saying they'd really REALLY win the event they lost. Also from the New York Times:
“That was awesome,” Phelps chortled about Lezak’s stunning leg of 46.06 seconds, which caught Alain Bernard, the Frenchman who had predicted his team would “smash” the Americans.
If anyone cares to source Bernard's original prophecies and to post them in the comments section, America's Leading Blog™ wouldn't hate it at all. America's Leading Blog™ is too busy to chase down every bullshit thing some French dude said.
XOXO,
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