Long accustomed to gold in the 4x100 meter relay (15 titles since 1920), the Americans have not been on the highest step of the podium in the discipline since the Sydney Olympics in 2000. 21 years after their last coronation, these last hit rock bottom this Thursday in Tokyo where they failed to qualify for the final.
6th in their series (8th fastest time of the day), Trayvon Bromell, Fred Kerley, Ronnie Baker and Cravon Gillespie got Carl Lewis out of his hinges.
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The full Olympic program
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“
The United States team got it all wrong on the men's relay,
” railed the athletics legend with the 9 Olympic gold medals on Twitter.
The handover was bad, the athletes lack the legs and there is clearly no leader. It's totally embarrassing and unacceptable for an American Olympic team to be worse than AAU (Amateur Athletes Union) kids
”. With just 4 gold medals (19 in total) in track and field, the United States fell short of their goal in Japan.
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