Canada won the men’s 4×100-meter Olympic relay in Paris on Friday thanks to the leadership of Andre de Grasse.
Canada won the men’s 4×100-meter Olympic relay in Paris on Friday thanks to the leadership of Andre de Grasse. For gold, the Canadian team, which also included Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, and Brendon Rodney, ran a time of 37.50 seconds.
In an African record time of 37.57 seconds, South Africa won silver, and Britain took bronze (37.61). With Marcell Jacobs, the 2021 100-meter champion, competing in the second leg, the defending champions Italy finished fourth in 37.68 seconds. The US team, which did not include the Covid-hit 100-meter champion Noah Lyles, finished seventh in 37.89, but they were later disqualified.
When Christian Coleman failed to pass the baton to Kenny Bednarek in the first place, the latter came to a near complete halt.
Fred Kerley and Kyree King were unable to get the quartet back into the running.
It carries on the miserable Olympic run of the sprint powerhouse.
The US men’s last medal was a silver one from the 2004 Athens Games.
A mishandled handoff occurred during the 2021 Tokyo Olympics heats, and the United States was eliminated from the Rio Games in 2016, did not place in the medal standings in London in 2012, and lost in the Beijing 2008 semifinals.
