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SHANGHAI -- The United  kobe iv shoes States men lost a relay in the Olympics or world championships for the first time in four years Sunday, and one of the best swimmers in the world could only watch.

After a disappointing swim in the morning qualifying heat, Port Orange's Ryan Lochte was benched for the 4x100-meter freestyle relay finals.
"This wasn't a very good relay for us," Reese said. "Why? We call it human beings. We had splits that were not adidas crazy 8  at all like we thought it would be."

The U.S. women's 4x100 free relay didn't win, either. Natalie Coughlin, 16-year-old rookie Missy Franklin, Jessica Hardy and Dana Vollmer took the silver after Vollmer was overtaken on the next-to-last lap by Femke Heemskerk of the Netherlands.

"I never like diving in and coming second," said Vollmer, who earlier set an American record of 56.47 as the fastest qualifier for today's 100 butterfly final.

The Dutch team of Inge Dekker, Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Marleen Veldhuis and Heemskerk defended their relay nike zoom kobe shoes   title in 3:33.96.