<b><!--sizeo:4--><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->No offense to any of you who are French or have French roots but your relay team is now eating their words&#33;&#33;&#33;<br /><br />If you didn&#39;t see the mens 4x100 mens freestyle relay you missed an incredible race.<br /><br />What makes this victory so sweet is that one of the French swimmers was quoted as saying they were going to <!--sizeo:6--><span style="font-size:24pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><i>&quot;smash the Americans&quot;</i><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--> in this race.  So to see the absolute defeat on his face when the USA won this race by catching the French in the last 5 meters and now to see them have to eat his words is precious.<br /><br />Just goes to show you are better off just keeping your mouth shut and letting your performance do the talking&#33;&#33;&#33;<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b><br /><br />This is not to say that the same type of thing hasn&#39;t happened to Americans in other events or in the past.  For some reason people think they have to run their mouth rather than just perform and let that be enough.  Americans were guilty of it 8 years ago in Sidney, I believe, when they said they&#39;d beat the Australians and then lost to them.<br /><br /><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->&quot;Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling.&quot;<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->  -<b><!--sizeo:4--><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--> God<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>