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If you ask 10 people why they love the Olympics, I have a feeling eight or nine would say because of stuff like we saw on Wednesday night. Caeleb Dressel—whom our Pat Forde billed before the Olympics as The Swimming Machine and the heir to Michael Phelps—won his first individual gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle.