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BigUps: Cullen Jones

August 11th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

I tried to stay awake last night, but couldn’t. I just watched it this morning, and boy, let me tell you. An amazing race indeed.

Cullen Jones
Cullen Jones

After some smack talk by the French 4×100m relay team, the U.S. seemed to pull out the impossible, beating them to win the gold by .08 seconds. BigUps to Mr. Cullen Jones, the 3rd leg of the team. According to Wikipedia, Jones is the first African-American to hold or share a world record (4×100 Freestyle Relay) in swimming. He is also the second African-American to make the US Olympic swimming team after Anthony Ervin. At the 2008 Olympic swimming trials, Jones broke the American record in the 50 meter freestyle with a time of 21.59.

Full video here.

The Frenchies were talkin’ smack and I didn’t even want to hear it. — Garrett Webber-Gale

Noice.

His NBC Interview below:

His talk on ESPN:

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  1. Comment by Rashad Morgan on 11 August 2008:

    Wow! Great race.

  2. Comment by Bronze Trinity on 11 August 2008:

    Yay! I missed the race but I was hoping things would go well for him!

  3. Comment by Kimberly on 11 August 2008:

    Yeah super glad to see this black man on team USA!

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  5. Comment by Digital Photo Frames on 23 February 2009:

    Awesome race, shame I missed it!