The United States’ 4x100m women’s relay team won their solo race against the clock to book their place in the Olympic final on Thursday.
Rio de Janeiro: The United States’ 4x100m women’s relay team won their solo race against the clock to book their place in the Olympic final on Thursday.
This series of pictures show USA’s Allyson Felix failing to hand the baton to teammate English Gardner during the relay. Pics/AFP
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The American quartet of Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix, English Gardner and Morolake Akinosun clocked 41.77 to eliminate China from today’s final.
“It was different, it was really weird. Running without competition is just strange,” Felix said.
It completed a surreal day for the reigning Olympic champions, who had earlier been left facing disqualification after a dropped baton exchange between Felix and Gardner in the morning heats. The American women were thrown a lifeline however when replays showed that Felix had been knocked off-balance by Brazilian runner Kauiza Venancio as she prepared to hand off to Gardner.
The US team filed a protest and race officials duly disqualified Brazil but ruled that the Americans must run again, in a highly unusual solo flying lap.
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