To say the U.S. was the favorite in the women's 4 by 400-meter relay is an understatement.
In addition to losing the 100 meters, he famously blew the baton pass in the 400 meter relay.
On Friday in the 4 by 100-meter relay, the American women busted a two-games streak of botching the baton handoff by setting a world record.
Well, today, both the men and women's U.S. 400 meter relay teams dropped the baton in their respective qualifying races and will not compete for the gold.
The four-time Paralympic Games gold medalist won a silver medal as part of South Africa's 4x400-meter relay at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea, last year.
In the men's 4-by-400-meter relay, the Bahamas' Ramon Miller passed American Angelo Taylor in the race's final 100 meters, taking the gold medal while the U.S. settled for silver.
In 2002, Montgomery was the world's fastest man, dating Marion Jones and was an Olympic gold medalist with the United States 4x100-meter relay team at the 2000 Sydney Games.
The time it took Bob Hayes, who died this fall at the too-young age of 59, to cover 100 meters during his anchor leg of the 400-meter relay in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
An avowed distance runner, Goluskin is also known for his speed on the track, having participated in a world-record-setting 4x800 meter relay team for men aged 70-79 at the 168th street Armory in March.
Mohammed Ali described it as "the single most courageous act of this century, " while Wyomia Tyus, anchor of the U.S. women's gold-medal winning 4x100 meter relay team, dedicated the team's victory to the two ostracized sprinters.
"When you have the pleasure of working with the No. 1 athlete in the world, that's a no-brainer, " said Glance, who won gold as part of the U.S. 4x100-meter relay team at the Montreal Games in 1976.
In Olympic Stadium, meanwhile, America's top female sprinters outpaced their Jamaican competitors to earn gold in the prestigious 4 x 100-meter relay -- though their long dominant countrymen fell just short in the 4 X 400-meter men's race.
"To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400-meters and the 4x400-meter relay is a real honor, and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together, " he said last month.
Then they hired an engineer to fashion a meter with relay switches and a communications port.
And on Sunday, a final victory in the 4X100-meter medley relay sealed the deal.
The first U.S. medal Saturday came when the women's 4x100-meter medley relay team broke the world record en route to easily winning gold.
In the 4X100-meter freestyle relay, teammate Jason Lezak trailed by almost six-tenths of a second when he entered the pool for his anchor leg.
In the last day of London's swimming competition, the American women won the 4x100-meter medley relay race, setting a new world record with a time of 3:52.05.
But history on Saturday also favored the leaders, as the most decorated Olympian of all time tallied another win with his American teammates in the 4 x 100-meter medley relay, handing Michael Phelps his 18th gold medal in the last race of his storied swimming career.
The 20-year-old Agnel, just a day after swimming an amazing anchor leg in leading France to victory in the men's 4x100 meter free style relay, routed the field in the 200-meter freestyle.
Phelps, 27 years old, said Thursday he would retire after swimming the 100-meter butterfly Friday and the medley relay Saturday.
After leading off the relay, 100-meter superstar Magnussen sat down.
Following an injury-plagued summer, the widely hyped track-and-field star not only botched the baton exchange during the men's 4x100 relay semi-final, but he failed to qualify for the 100-meter final, much less medal, throwing his marketability into question.
She then took a seven-year break before returning for the 2000 Sydney Games, where she would win two gold relay medals and first individual Olympic medals: three bronzes medals in the 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter freestyle and the 100-meter butterfly.
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