Team USA wins first rowing gold medal in men's four since 1960 Rome Olympics
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The United States took home a rowing gold medal in a thrilling men's four race at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Thursday, the first time Americans have been Olympic champions in the event in 64 years.
By contrast, Team USA hadn't earned first place in the men's four — a race where each team's boat is steered by a team of four rowers — since taking gold at the Rome Olympics in 1960. The British team were the reigning world champions in this heat and favored to win at the Olympics, but they got off to a slow start.
Returning U.S. Olympians Nick Mead, Justin Best, Michael Grady and Liam Corrigan led from start to finish to capture the gold. Only Grady was part of the men's four rowing team that took fifth place in the same competition at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, while the other three athletes competed in the men's eight, a similar competition involving an eight-person rowing team. Mead, Best, Grady and Corrigan have now been rowing together for a little over a year, according to Team USA, after they were selected to the Olympic team in March 2023.
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