{"id":404022,"date":"2024-06-18T01:02:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T01:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=404022"},"modified":"2024-06-18T05:10:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T05:10:00","slug":"my-idea-americas-most-humbling-defeat-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=404022","title":{"rendered":"'My idea': America's most humbling defeat revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

To mark 100 days from the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Nine.com.au asked you what your favourite Olympic memories were in a survey. The response was overwhelming! We chose 50 of them to re-live, one a day, before new memories are made in Paris. Scroll on for today's memory.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The win was titanic and the celebration priceless.<\/p>\n

An Australian swimming<\/a> relay team featuring Michael Klim, Chris Fydler, Ashley Callus and Ian Thorpe<\/a> had just inflicted the first men's 4x100m freestyle defeat on the US in Olympic<\/a> history.<\/p>\n

Then the air guitars came out.<\/p>\n

Watch the video at the top of the page to watch Australia's epic "guitar-smashing" win at the Sydney 2000 Olympics!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Going wild on the pooldeck on the opening night of the Sydney 2000 Olympics, the four relay heroes fired a shot back at Gary Hall junior, the brash anchor of the US team who'd sledged the Australians ahead of the Games, declaring the Americans would "smash them like guitars".<\/p>\n

Klim got the Australian team off\ufeff to a blinding start by ripping through his leg in world record time.<\/p>\n

Next was Fydler, then Callus.<\/p>\n

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When Thorpe launched into the pool, the Australians held a slight lead over the second-placed Americans, and although the 17-year-old superstar trailed Hall by half a body length when he turned for home, he would close the gap and steal the lead back in the final 10 metres.<\/p>\n

Thorpe and his teammates also set a new world record, stopping the clock at three minutes and 13.67 seconds (3:13.67).<\/p>\n

\ufeffAs Klim, Fydler and Callus flung their arms in the air on the pooldeck, Thorpe clenched a fist in the pool and punched the air.<\/p>\n

The staggering win and epic guitar smashing proved the perfect reply to Hall's spicy call.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"Everyone's claiming it was their idea, so I'm going to keep doing it and say it was my idea," Klim said with a laugh in a recent interview with Wide World of Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

"I'm glad that it happened. If you say 'air guitar relay' everyone knows what you're talking about."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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