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Former Ohio State Swimmer Hunter Armstrong Wins Gold Medal in 4×100-Meter Freestyle Relay
Hunter Armstrong is now a two-time Olympic gold medalist.
The former Ohio State swimmer won gold on Saturday as a member of the United States’ 4×100-meter freestyle relay team, which finished first in the finals with a time of 3:09.28 to beat out Australia (3:10.35) and Italy (3:10.7) for the top spot on the podium.
It was the first gold for Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics. And Armstrong delivered the fastest leg.
TEAM USA STRIKES GOLD.
CAELEB DRESSEL BRINGS IT HOME IN THE MEN’S 4X100 FREE RELAY. #ParisOlympics pic.twitter.com/rJwrSEWhps
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) July 27, 2024
Team USA got off to something of a slow start, hitting the wall in second place through the first leg. But Chris Guiliano pulled the Americans ahead by about half a body length entering Armstrong’s leg.
Armstrong put on a staggering display in his third leg, swimming it in 46.75 seconds, the fastest of the relay for the Americans. He had a full body length and then some when he hit the wall, and Caeleb Dressel delivered the gold with a 47.5-second anchor leg for Team USA.
Armstrong’s leg was .05 seconds faster than the world record of 46.8 seconds in the 100-meter freestyle, though only the first leg of a relay counts toward the 100-meter record.
Olympic Games Paris 2024 #Paris2024
Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Finalhttps://t.co/AQbFT7jEfOUnited States of America (USA) 3:09.28
– Jack Alexy 47.67
– Chris Guiliano 47.33
– Hunter Armstrong 46.75
– Caeleb Dressel 47.53
Australia (AUS) 3:10.35 pic.twitter.com/MNdxR3YlJX— NEWS (@swimcoverage) July 27, 2024
Armstrong wins gold as a member of a relay team for the second Olympics in a row as he won his first Olympic gold medal as a member of the 4×100 medley relay team in Tokyo, where he swam the backstroke for Team USA in the preliminary round.
He’ll chase another medal as an individual in the 100-meter backstroke, which begins with qualifying heats and semifinals on Sunday. He finished ninth in the event in Tokyo but took bronze medals at both the 2022 and 2023 World Aquatics Championships. He won gold at the 2023 Worlds in the 50-meter backstroke, which is not an Olympic event.
Armstrong was one of four Buckeyes to compete on the first full day of Olympic events on Saturday.
Former Ohio State fencer Fares Arfa, who is competing for Canada, pulled off one of the day’s biggest upsets when he defeated three-time defending gold medalist Áron Szilágyi in the first round of the men’s sabre competition. He advanced to the quarterfinals to earn an eighth-place finish, Canada’s best-ever finish in an individual fencing competition.
#TeamCanada fencer, Fares Arfa, defeated the 3-time defending Olympic champion in men’s individual sabre, Aron Szilagyi. Fares moves on to the round of 16 later today. pic.twitter.com/30w0lkgkew
Team Canada (@TeamCanada) July 27, 2024
Former Ohio State pistol shooter Katelyn Abeln, who is competing for the United States, finished 24th in the qualifying round for the 10-meter women’s air pistol. Current Ohio State diver Leah Hentschel, who is representing Germany, finished sixth in the 3-meter synchronized dive.
Having lived with Donald Trump’s infamous and baseless insult against them — “they’re eating the dogs … they’re eating the cats” — Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are bracing for a far bigger injury.
More than 10,000 Haitians across Ohio and hundreds of thousands more around the country who had Temporary Protected Status now face the imminent prospect of deportation. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration can halt those legal protections for Haitians and Syrians and resume forcing them to leave.
Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion for the court’s Republican-appointed majority curbed the power of courts to review government decisions to terminate protections under the TPS program.
“They side with him on everything that he says or everything that he does, which means there is no check and balance,” said Viles Dorsainvil, a Haitian TPS holder and executive director of the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, a town Trump catapulted into a maelstrom of misinformation about immigrants when he was running to retake the White House in 2024.
“The president has that freeway in front of him to do whatever he wants to do, unfortunately, and most of the time to a minority group of people,” added Dorsainvil, who has lived in the United States since 2020.
In a country rife with political and economic instability, Haitians returning from the U.S. are in danger of being killed or kidnapped, said Dorsainvil’s colleague at the Haitian Support Center, Rose Thamar Joseph.
“There is this perception in Haiti that if you are living here in the United States, you have money, so you are living your good life, so sending people back to Haiti will put them in real danger,” Joseph said.
Staying in the U.S. without legal status creates a different crisis.
“We received calls this morning from people saying that, unfortunately, starting on July 1, they won’t be able to go to work anymore,” Joseph said Friday.
Joseph predicted that families would be separated during the deportation process.
“We know that there will be separation,” she said. “A lot of those parents with TPS … they have kids who were born in the United States, so we know that it will happen, not for everybody, not for all the families, but it will happen,” she said.
The oncoming nightmare for the Haitian community in Springfield was, in many ways, predictable after Trump notoriously targeted them on the debate stage against then-Vice President Kamala Harris in the fall of 2024.
The Oregon Ducks and coach Dan Lanning have lost out on a top offensive lineman target for their 2027 recruiting class.
On Friday, four-star interior offensive lineman Caden Moss committed to the Ohio State Buckeyes, per On3’s Hayes Fawcett. The 6-5, 320-pound offensive lineman from Jackson Academy in Mississippi chose the Buckeyes over Oregon, Ole Miss, LSU, and Kentucky.
In his commitment post on Instagram, Moss said, “Go Bucks, I’m home.” Moss arrives at Ohio State rated as the No. 72 overall player nationally and No. 7 offensive tackle in the 2027 recruiting class, per 247Sports Composite rankings.
How Moss Commitment Impacts Oregon’s 2027 Recruiting Class Ranking
Despite the loss of Moss to their 2027 recruiting class, the Ducks are ahead of the Buckeyes in the rankings, per 247Sports. The Ducks are No. 6 in the 2027 recruiting class rankings, while the Buckeyes are two spots behind Oregon at No. 8 overall in the country.
The Ducks and Buckeyes, the way things stand at the end of June, have the two best 2027 recruiting classes in the Big Ten and are the only schools from the conference currently ranked inside the top 10. Oregon, however, has four more commits than Ohio State following Moss’ commitment to the Buckeyes on Friday.
The four Big Ten teams behind the Ducks and Buckeyes, but inside the top 20 of the 2027 recruiting class rankings, per 247Sports, include the Penn State Nittany Lions (No. 13), USC Trojans (No. 14), UCLA Bruins (No. 16), and Nebraska Cornhuskers (No. 18).
Oregon and Ohio State’s 2027 recruiting classes are very similar as they both have 11 total blue-chip commits, per 247Sports, including two five-stars and nine four-stars.
Oregon 2027 Offensive Line Commits
While wide receiver Dakota Guerrant and edge rusher Rashad Streets are Oregon’s two five-star commits in the 2027 recruiting class, the Ducks have four offensive line commits despite the loss of Moss to coach Ryan Day and the Buckeyes.
Offensive lineman commits in the Ducks’ 2027 recruiting class include a pair of four-star recruits, Gus Corsair and Cameron Wagner. Three-star commits Avery Michael and Lex Mailangi also highlight the offensive line commits in the Ducks’ 2027 recruiting class.
Over the course of his four seasons as coach of the Ducks, Oregon has been known for its efficient offensive line play, building one of the best groups in the country. In the last four seasons, the Ducks have been the only school to have their offensive line named a semifinalist for the Joe Moore Award.
With the commits in Oregon’s 2027 recruiting class, along with the returners that the Ducks have for the 2026 season, the offensive line looks to continue that trend heading into a year with national championship expectations.
As for the Buckeyes, Ohio State hopes that a dominant offensive lineman can help it continue to be a Big Ten championship and national title contender consistently, as it looks to avenge last season’s loss to the Miami Hurricanes in the CFP Quarterfinal at the Cotton Bowl.
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