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The United States team had a busy time in the final day of pool swimming at the Paris Games on Saturday as they set two world records, but had their historic men’s 4×100-metre medley relay ended by China. American Bobby Finke claimed the men’s 1,500m freestyle record, before the women’s team clocked a new best time in the 4x100m medley relay. But their impressive run in the men’s 4x100m medley came to an end. The US had won all of the races they competed in since the event was introduced to the Olympics programme in 1960. The only exception had been the 1980 Games in Moscow, which the US boyco…

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