{"id":24172,"date":"2022-07-24T14:13:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T14:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/us-pulls-off-upset-gets-upset-in-4x100m-relays-at-track-worlds\/"},"modified":"2022-07-24T14:13:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T14:13:41","slug":"us-pulls-off-upset-gets-upset-in-4x100m-relays-at-track-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/us-pulls-off-upset-gets-upset-in-4x100m-relays-at-track-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"US pulls off upset, gets upset in 4x100m relays at track worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The US women’s 4x100m pulled off the upset. The US men’s 4x100m got upset.<\/p>\n

The penultimate day of the world track and field championships produced surprises in the final two races on Saturday night’s program.<\/p>\n

Melissa Jefferson<\/strong>, Abby Steiner<\/strong>, Jenna Prandini<\/strong> and TeeTee Terry<\/strong> stunned a Jamaican women’s quartet that included Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce<\/strong>, Shericka Jackson <\/strong>and Elaine Thompson-Herah<\/strong>, who swept the individual 100m medals. The US prevailed by four hundredths in 41.14 seconds.<\/p>\n

Jefferson had the best split of the leadoff runners, then Steiner outsplit Thompson-Herah by .24, enough for Prandini and Terry to hold off Fraser-Pryce and Jackson’s charge.<\/p>\n

\u201c[If] there’s no chemistry, there’s no trust to be able to move the baton through the exchanges, then you aren’t really going to produce what you think you can produce just because you have the three or four fastest women,\u201d Terry said. \u201cOur chemistry was so good that we didn’t even really have to do much when we warmed up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twenty minutes later, Christian Coleman<\/strong>, Noah Lyles<\/strong>, Elijah Hall<\/strong> and Marvin Bracy-Williams<\/strong> delivered silver rather than the expected gold. Canada, which won the men’s 4x100m at the last global championship held in the US at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, edged the Americans by seven hundredths with Andr\u00e9 De Grasse <\/strong>anchoring<\/p>\n

The US had subpar handoffs from Coleman to Lyles and even more so from Hall to Bracy-Williams on anchor.<\/p>\n

The US was without Fred Kerley<\/strong>who won the individual 100m last Saturday as part of an American medals sweep, then a quad injury in the 200m semifinals.<\/p>\n

The US is the greatest sprint nation in history, yet has swept the 4x100m golds at just one global championship (Olympics or worlds) in the last 29 years (22 meets).<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people see that [silver] as a defeat, but to be honest with the struggles we’ve been having over the years, it’s just nice to get the stick around, run a fast time,\u201d said Lyles, who was on the 2019 4x100m that earned the US men’s lone gold since 2007.<\/p>\n

Worlds finish Sunday with nine finals, including the women’s 800m (Athing Mu<\/strong>) and 100m hurdles (Ken Harrison<\/strong>), men’s pole vault (Mondo Duplantis<\/strong>) and decathlon finale and 4x400m relays.<\/p>\n

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