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00:00All right, let us get you some swimming action from the Paris Games where Australia took

00:14home two golds.

00:16Australian women swam their way to a gold medal in 4x100m freestyle relay.

00:23It was Australia's fourth consecutive Olympic gold in the event.

00:26Molly O'Callaghan, Shana Jack-Emmart-McKinn and Meg Harris won the event with an Olympic

00:34record time.

00:35The United States grabbed the silver and China took home the bronze.

00:40Australia's Arianne Titmuss also defended her 400m freestyle gold.

00:45Titmuss was almost a second faster than the Canadian team Summer McIntosh and more than

00:53three seconds clear of U.S. four-time Olympian Katie Ledecky.

00:58The race had been compared to the epic men's 200 freestyle race of the century showdown

01:04between American Michael Phelps, Australian Ian Thorpe and Dutch giant Pieter van de Hoogenwold

01:12in 2004.

01:14America denied Australia a gold in the men's 4x100m relay.

01:19Jack Alexie, Chris Guiliano, Hunter Armstrong and Caleb Dressel combined to beat Australia.

01:27Italy secured the third position.

01:29This was the United States' third consecutive gold medal in the event.

01:32This was also the eighth gold of Dressel's career.

01:36He had bagged five in Tokyo and two in Rio.