American monitor star Noah Lyles missed the 4×100-meter relay on account of COVID-19. Whereas Staff USA could have benefited from Lyles’ presence on the monitor for the relay occasion, a mishap finally ended the American males’s hopes of capturing gold in Paris Friday.
The U.S. males’s monitor and subject workforce prolonged its medal drought within the males’s occasion to twenty years after a botched handoff within the first leg of the race led to a disqualification for the People.
The workforce of Christian Coleman, Kenneth Bednarek, Kyree King and Fred Kerley completed the race in seventh place however was later disqualified after it was discovered Coleman handed off the baton to two-time silver medalist Bednarek exterior the alternate zone.
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Carl Lewis, a former American monitor and subject athlete, throughout a tour of the Stade de France on day six of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Pictures)
Legendary monitor and subject athlete and nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis has been in Paris to observe the 2024 Summer season Video games. He described Staff USA’s efficiency on Friday as a “total embarrassment,” whereas additionally calling for some critical adjustments to U.S. monitor and subject.
“It is time to blow up the system,” Lewis posted on X, previously Twitter. “This continues to be completely unacceptable. It is clear that EVERYONE at [USA Track & Field] is more concerned with relationships than winning. No athlete should step on the track and run another relay until this program is changed from top to bottom.”
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Canada claimed the gold medal after ending the race in 37.50 seconds, whereas South Africa earned silver. Nice Britain gained the bronze.
All of Staff USA, aside from Bednarek, spoke to reporters after the race. Coleman attributed the error to the workforce being caught up within the warmth of the second.
Christian Coleman, proper, of the USA, struggles at hand the baton to teammate Kenneth Bednarek within the males’s 4×100-meter relay remaining on the 2024 Summer season Olympics Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Picture/Bernat Armangue)
“We practiced a lot,” Coleman mentioned. “Me and Kenny have been competitors but also teammates a few times. We felt really confident going out there. In the heat of the moment, it just didn’t happen.”
After being pressed to pinpoint what precisely induced the mishap, Coleman mentioned, “I’m not sure if you want me to point fingers or something like that. As a team, as a unit, we didn’t get it done today.”
Coleman’s teammate, Kerley, appeared to take problem with the road of questioning and finally interjected, “Y’all say the same s— over and over.”
The 2024 Summer season Video games should not the primary at which the U.S. males’s workforce has had baton passing points.
On the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the People seemed to be on monitor to safe a spot within the 4×100 remaining till a mix-up led to the baton tumbling to the monitor as rain fell from the sky.
Christian Coleman, left, of the USA, struggles at hand the baton to teammate Kenneth Bednarek, within the males’s 4×100-meter relay remaining on the 2024 Summer season Olympics Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Picture/Bernat Armangue)
The People completed in second throughout the 2012 Video games in London however have been later stripped of the silver on account of a doping case.
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Though three People are among the many high 11 100-meter sprinters on this planet this yr, the U.S. nonetheless couldn’t handle to say one of many three spots on the Olympic podium in Paris following the 4×100-meter relay.
Nevertheless, the ladies offered a brilliant spot for the People as Sha’Carri Richardson anchored the 4×100-meter relay and helped raise Staff USA to gold. The U.S. girls have now earned 12 gold medals within the occasion.
Fox Information’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.
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