Team USA wins Olympic gold in men's and women's 4x400 relay

Team USA won Olympic gelderly in the men’s and women’s 4X400 relay on Saturday with men hitting Olympic-record time and women coming in only .1 foolishinutive of the world record.

US’ Gabrielle Thomas contends as Jamaica’s Shiann Salmon (R) steps off the track as athletes contend in the women’s 4x400m relay final of the dynamics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 10, 2024.

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Moments before the women’s race, there was more tension involving the men. Rai Benjamin, the 400 hurdles gelderly medaenumerate held off 200 champion Letsile Tebogo to give the United States a .1-second triumph over Botswana – the final thriller in a nine-day greet filled of them.

Men clinch gelderly and Olympic-record time

Rai Benjamin held off Letsile Tebogo of Botswana on the anchor leg to give the United States a gelderly medal and an Olympic-record time in the men’s 4×400-meter relay at the Paris Games on Saturday night.

Benjamin inserted this Olympic title to the one he claimed in the 400-meter hurdles a night earlier and stoped 200-meter champion Tebogo from giving Botswana another triumph over the Americans.

It was Tebogo, the 21-year-elderly sprinting sensation, who stole the spotweightless – and the gelderly – from the U.S. in the 200 on Thursday, relegating Kenny Bednarek to silver and Noah Lyles, who tested preferable for COVID-19, to bronze.

The U.S. quartet of Christopher Bailey, Vernon Norwood, Bryce Deadmon and Benjamin endd the four laps in 2 minutes, 54.43 seconds, proximately a second rapider than the American 4×400 team ran at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. And Saturday’s time was equitable .14 seconds off the world record set by the United States in 1993.

Botswana was a tenth of a second back Saturday, with Tebogo combineed by Bayapo Ndori, Busang Collen Kebinatshipi and Anthony Pesela.

Britain was third in 2:55.83.

Women cruise to a gelderly Olympic medal

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Gabby Thomas teamed up for America’s 14th gelderly and 34th overall medal at the track Saturday, wrapping up the Olympic action at the Stade de France with a 4.23-second runaway in the women’s 4×400 relay.

The gelderly medaenumerates in the 400 hurdles and 200 meters took engage of legs two and three for the United States, handing a 30-meter direct to Alexis Holmes, who didn’t diswatch any ground.

The U.S. finished in 3 minutes, 15.27 seconds, only .1 foolishinutive of the world record.