Carmen Dixon, Black Voices
- Cullen Jones made history today as one of four men on the USA’s winning 4X100 freestyle relay team.
They took the Gold with a world record time of 3 minutes, 8.24 seconds in an edge of your seat race that keeps swimmer Michael Phelps on track to bring eight medals home.
Cullen Jones might be considered a bit of an unexpected swimming superstar. You see during one of his first experiences in water, he almost drowned. But that was a long time ago.
And now as only the third American black person to qualify for the Olympics in swimming, Cullen Jones has also positioned himself as an advocate and ambassador of swimming for reluctant black children.
