Story behind the flag carried by Brendan, Aaron, Jason and Mike...
Larsen Jensen wrote an open letter to the USA Swimming community and shares this bit of information about the flag carried by the 4x100 Medley Relay on the podium and afterwards...
You can read the entire letter at Swimming World Magazine.
A few days ago I received an American Flag and accompanying Flag Citation from Navy Special Operations Task Force - West, Camp Shane Patton, Fallujah, Iraq. I was hoping to personally carry that flag around the pool; but that wasn't in the cards.
However, that flag was carried around the pool by Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen, Michael Phelps, and Jason Lezak for the awards ceremony of the 400 Medley Relay.
They are great Americans and they carried that flag to make all of you proud-they did a damn good job. This team has made me proud by their grace in victory and poise in defeat. A man could never ask for a finer group of men and women to be associated with than our USA Olympians.
You can read the entire letter at Swimming World Magazine.
Labels: 2008 Olympic Games
posted by Michelle at
8/17/2008 11:18:00 PM
2 Comments:
That was a great letter from Larsen, and he has really proven to be a classy guy. It was nice to know the significance behind the flag that they carried. It must have made that moment even more special for them.
By
TimTheSwimmer, at 8/18/2008 4:34 PM
I cried when I read that letter. Way to melt my heart, Larsen!
By
lala, at 8/18/2008 9:19 PM
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