despite hopes that a 2019 World Championships gold medal had finally exorcised the Americans' relay demons which have existed for well over a decade. The team had a first-round baton drop at the 2008 ...

The U.S. men’s 4x100-meter relay team did it again ... In 2016 they were plagued by an illegal handoff. In 2008 they dropped the baton in the first round. It was the kind of history the ...

Jamaica had won Olympic relay gold the year before ... fans do not argue about the greatest baton passers of all time. That is why Team USA’s handoff follies have been so maddening: The U.S ...

Anchoring Jamaica’s gold-medal winning 4×100-meter relay team, the fastest man on ... they were disqualified for what appeared to be a baton pass that occurred outside of the zone.