Phelps wins third goal medal
Michael Phelps has won his third gold medal as the USA won the men's 4x200m freestyle relay final in dramatic circumstances tonight.
Klete Keller held off Australia's Ian Thorpe in the tightest of finishes in a race that will live long in the memory.
Earlier Phelps fine first leg put the US in control, but the Australians kept plugging at the USA lead and almost snatched victory through Thorpe.
Men’s 4 x 200m free Final:
1 United States 7:07.33 American Record (Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Peter Vanderkaay, Klete Keller),
2 Australia 7:07.46 (Grant Hackett, Michael Klim, Nicholas Sprenger, Ian Thorpe),
3 Italy 7:11.83 (Emiliano Brembilla, Massimiliano Rosolino, Simone Cercato, Filippo Magnini),
4 Great Britain 7:12.60 (Simon Burnett, Gavin Meadows, David O Brien, Ross Davenport),
5 Canada 7:13.33 (Brent Hayden, Brian Johns, Andrew Hurd, Rick Say),
6 Germany 7:16.51 (Jens Schreiber, Heiko Hell, Lars Conrad, Christian Keller),
7 France 7:17.43 (Amaury Leveaux, Fabien Horth, Nicolas Kintz, Nicolas Rostoucher),
8 Greece 7:23.02 (Apostolos Antonopoulos, Dimitrios Manganas, Andreas Zisimos, Nikolaos
