Four years earlier he won gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay and the 4x200m free relay.

CNN: Phelps on course with third gold medal

Phelps' bid to match Mark Spitz's historic 1972 haul of seven swimming gold medals has been thwarted by third place finishes in the 4x100m free relay and the 200m freestyle.

CNN: Phelps strikes gold, misses record

The 20-year-old Agnel, just a day after swimming an amazing anchor leg in leading France to victory in the men's 4x100 meter free style relay, routed the field in the 200-meter freestyle.

CNN: Olympics: Young stars winning swimming golds

For years, software was swapped for free via Internet Relay Chat, an early form of online information exchange.

CNN: The next piracy panic: Software

The Relay service offers free pickup from designated locations where shoppers pick a day and window of hours to go get their goods (the most central in Washington to date has been its stop between Adams Morgan and Dupont Circle, with a few in the suburbs).

FORBES: Relay Marches On Washington: Grocery Delivery Startup Gets $8 Million For Metro Expansion

Back then many companies ran a free, open-source e-mail relay technology but ended up spending more than they thought they would making the stuff work.

FORBES: You Get What You Pay For

Stoke Park is also the venue for a free event celebrating the end of the Olympic torch relay through Surrey on 20 July, with Guildford the last overnight stop before the torch enters London.

BBC: Olly Murs

During the two-month, countrywide Olympic torch relay many local car parks have offered spaces free to avoid clogging streets.

ECONOMIST: The economic impact of the games

Those stations relay Fox programming such as "Glee" and "Family Guy" for free over the airwaves in local markets and add their own local news and other programming.

NPR: Exec Threatens To Pull Fox Signal If Aereo Goes On