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There’s no option to inform if the wet climate or the absence of American observe star Noah Lyles contributed to the U.S.’ disappointing end within the males’s 4×100-meter relay, but it surely’s actually one thing to contemplate.
Team USA on Friday 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 Americans.
Christian Coleman of the U.S. competes within the males’s 4x100m relay ultimate on the Summer Olympic Games at Stade de France in Paris on Friday. (Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu by way of Getty Images)
The group of Christian Coleman, Kenneth Bednarek, Kyree King and Fred Kerley completed the race in seventh place, however had been later disqualified after it was discovered that Coleman handed off the baton to two-time silver medalist Bednarek outdoors the alternate zone.
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Bednarek appeared to start out too early or too fast and practically got here to a halt so as to obtain the baton from Coleman, however the harm was completed.
“It’s a little disappointing, especially for America, because we wanted to bring it home,” Coleman stated after. “We knew we had the speed to do it… but we are human beings, too. We’ve been through ups and downs in life. This is just another one of those times where we’ve just got to keep our head down and just keep pushing.”
Coleman, proper, struggles at hand the baton to teammate Kenneth Bednarek through the males’s 4×100-meter relay ultimate on Friday. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
The solely time the U.S. has captured a medal during the last 20 years was in 2012, however that was later stripped because of a doping violation.
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Notably absent from the ultimate — and presumably a game-changer if he competed — was 100-meter gold medalist Noah Lyles. Lyles stated after choosing up a bronze medal within the 200-meter ultimate on Thursday that he had contracted COVID earlier within the week, ending his journey in Paris.
Canada surprised the sector on Friday to win gold behind seven-time Olympic medalist Andre De Grasse. South Africa completed second, adopted by Great Britain.
Bednarek appeared to start out too early or too fast and practically got here to a halt so as to obtain the baton from Coleman. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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The ladies’s 4x100m relay ultimate was a distinct story for the Americans.
Sha’Carri Richardson continued to shine in her Olympic debut, incomes gold because the anchor leg within the ladies’s relay. Friday’s win marked 12 gold medals for the U.S. ladies in that occasion.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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