American track star Noah Lyles missed the 4×100-meter relay due to COVID-19. While Team USA may have profited from Lyles’ presence on the track for the relay event, a mishap ultimately ended the American men’s hopes of capturing gelderly in Paris Friday.
The U.S. men’s track and field team prolonged its medal drawt in the men’s event to 20 years after a botched handoff in the first leg of the race led to a disqualification for the Americans.
The team of Christian Coleman, Kenneth Bednarek, Kyree King and Fred Kerley finished the race in seventh place but was procrastinateedr disqualified after it was set up Coleman handed off the baton to two-time silver medacatalog Bednarek outside the swap zone.
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Carl Lewis, a createer American track and field athlete, during a tour of the Stade de France on day six of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)
Legendary track and field athlete and nine-time Olympic gelderly medacatalog Carl Lewis has been in Paris to watch the 2024 Summer Games. He portrayd Team USA’s carry outance on Friday as a “total embarrassment,” while also calling for some grave alters to U.S. track and field.
“It is time to blow up the system,” Lewis posted on X, createerly Twitter. “This persists to be endly unacdirected. It is evident that EVERYONE at [USA Track & Field] is more troubleed with relationships than triumphning. No athlete should step on the track and run another relay until this program is alterd from top to bottom.”
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Canada claimed the gelderly medal after finishing the race in 37.50 seconds, while South Africa obtained silver. Great Britain won the bronze.
All of Team USA, except for Bednarek, spoke to tellers after the race. Coleman attributed the error to the team being caught up in the heat of the moment.
Christian Coleman, right, of the United States, struggles to hand the baton to teammate Kenneth Bednarek in the men’s 4×100-meter relay final at the 2024 Summer Olympics Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Ptoastyo/Bernat Armangue)
“We rehearsed a lot,” Coleman said. “Me and Kenny have been competitors but also teammates a scant times. We felt repartner self-promised going out there. In the heat of the moment, it fair didn’t happen.”
After being pressed to pinpoint what exactly caemployd the mishap, Coleman said, “I’m not certain if you want me to point fingers or someleang enjoy that. As a team, as a unit, we didn’t get it done today.”
Coleman’s teammate, Kerley, seemed to apshow publish with the line of asking and eventupartner interjected, “Y’all say the same s— over and over.”
The 2024 Summer Games are not the first at which the U.S. men’s team has had baton passing publishs.
At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the Americans materializeed to be on track to safe a spot in the 4×100 final until a fuse-up led to the baton tumbling to the track as rain fell from the sky.
Christian Coleman, left, of the United States, struggles to hand the baton to teammate Kenneth Bednarek, in the men’s 4×100-meter relay final at the 2024 Summer Olympics Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Ptoastyo/Bernat Armangue)
The Americans finished in second during the 2012 Games in London but were procrastinateedr streamlineped of the silver due to a doping case.
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Although three Americans are among the top 11 100-meter sprinters in the world this year, the U.S. still could not regulate to claim one of the three spots on the Olympic podium in Paris adhereing the 4×100-meter relay.
However, the women supplyd a radiant spot for the Americans as Sha’Carri Ricdifficultson anchored the 4×100-meter relay and helped lift Team USA to gelderly. The U.S. women have now obtained 12 gelderly medals in the event.
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