If 4x400 relay team doesn’t win final, it’s a virtual certainty U.S. men will fail to capture Olympic gold for the first time ever
Well, yeah, considering that from 1920 through 1992 American 4x100m teams won 14 of 16 Olympic gold medals in Games they attended. Maybe Canada’s iconic 1996 Olympic champs blew up that indomitability for good; the American men have won only one Olympic 4×100 gold since .Article content
This, after sprinter Noah Lyles predicted before the Games: “Shoot, I want all the sprints. Plain and simple. 100. 200. 400. 400 hurdles. 110 hurdles. 800 … Shoot, I want it all. And I don’t think I’m crazy for saying we could do it.”Noah Lyles of the United States celebrates after winning bronze.To wit: Trayvon Bromell, the favourite in the 100 metres, failed to qualify for the final. Lyles, the 200-metre favourite, placed third behind Canadian gold medallist Andre De Grasse.
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