--- title: US Olympic Swim Team Carpool Karaoke: Michael Phelps description: The U.S. Olympic swim team filmed their own version of James Corden's hit "Carpool Karaoke" segment while training for the 2016 Rio Games. canonical: https://time.com/4440607/us-olympic-swim-team-carpool-karaoke-michael-phelps/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-05T15:00:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:09.228Z og:title: Watch the U.S. Olympic Swim Team Crush Carpool Karaoke og:description: "It's a party in the USA" og:url: https://time.com/4440607/us-olympic-swim-team-carpool-karaoke-michael-phelps/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the U.S. Olympic Swim Team Crush Carpool Karaoke twitter:description: "It's a party in the USA" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the U.S. Olympic Swim Team Crush Carpool Karaoke  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 5, 2016 3:00 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 5, 2016 3:00 PM UTC The U.S. Olympic swim team took a page out of James Corden’s book recently, filming their own version of the late-night host’s hit “[Carpool Karaoke](http://time.com/4416799/michelle-obama-carpool-karaoke-james-corden/)” segment in the midst of training for the [2016 Rio Summer Games](http://time.com/4438845/olympic-soccer-fastest-goal-canada/). Members of both the men’s and women’s squads — including [Michael Phelps](http://time.com/4436506/michael-phelps-usa-flag-bearer-rio-olympics/), [Ryan Lochte](http://time.com/4433738/ryan-lochte-unveils-dramatic-new-hair-for-rio-olympics-2016/) and Katie Ledecky — got in on the action, piling into their cars to perform songs such as Fifth Harmony’s “Bo$$,” Zac Brown Band’s “Chicken Fried” and One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful.” The group closed out the nearly eight-minute clip with a practically obligatory rendition of Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the USA.” Watch the full video below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4440607/us-olympic-swim-team-carpool-karaoke-michael-phelps/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4440607/us-olympic-swim-team-carpool-karaoke-michael-phelps/"},"headline":"Watch the U.S. Olympic Swim Team Crush Carpool Karaoke","datePublished":"2016-08-05T15:00:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:09.228Z","description":"\"It's a party in the USA\"","url":"https://time.com/4440607/us-olympic-swim-team-carpool-karaoke-michael-phelps/","keywords":["Newsfeed","olympics","Summer Olympics","carpool karaoke","2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4440607/us-olympic-swim-team-carpool-karaoke-michael-phelps/","name":"Watch the U.S. Olympic Swim Team Crush Carpool Karaoke"}}]}] ```