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Chris Bailey's gold medal for the US in 4x400-meter relay highlighted performances of Tennessee alumni in Paris Olympics
Rai Benjamin confidently told USA TODAY Sports the U.S. men’s 4x400 relay team “got something for” the competition in the final. He was correct.
Both the men's and the women's relay teams won gold in the 4x400-meter relay finals on Saturday, Aug. 10, and Masai Russell also came in first in the women's 100-meter hurdles final.
The first two women's Olympic finals (1972 and 1976) resulted in new world records for the winning East German teams. The men's world record has been profoundly shaped by Olympic competition with ten records set (1912, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1952, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1988, and 1992): the record has only been broken twice in a 4 × 400 m relay race ...
Christopher Bailey had to run all out for most of the anchor lap, only having the opportunity to relax once he had clearly passed Kentaro Sato of Japan to secure the third automatic qualifying position for the team behind Botswana and GBR. Bailey split 44.0, so all three runners who would run in the final the next day had hard splits in their legs.
Christopher Bailey (born May 29, 2000) is an American track and field athlete. He has won medals at the 2024 Olympic Games , the Athletics World Championships and World Athletics Indoors Championships in the 4x400 metres relay .
The U.S.’s time of 2:54.43 broke the Olympic record in the men’s 4x400 relay. Benjamin’s heroic anchor leg means Wilson, the 16-year-old phenom, will leave Paris with a gold medal.
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