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Here's A Relay Race Handoff Gone Horribly WrongHere’s the rare bungling at this year’s IAAF World Championships in Doha that was not the fault of the event’s corrupt, rapacious organizers. While the Jamaican team sped to victory in last weekend’s women’s 4x100 relay final, the final two runners on the Chinese team seemed to forget how their even...

Usain Bolt Completes Triple-Triple, Leads Jamaica To 4x100m GoldUsain Bolt has completed the unprecedented feat of winning the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay in three straight Olympics, anchoring Jamaica to a 37.27 tonight and, with Nickel Ashmeade, Yohan Blake, and Asafa Powell, beating Japan by 0.33 seconds. The U.S. claimed bronze, two hundredths of a second be...

USA Loses 4x100 After Botched Baton ExchangeThe Jamaican team of Jermaine Hamilton, Julian Foote, Rasheed Dwyer, and Oshane Bailey took first place at the Penn Relays 4x100 after the top U.S. team botched the baton exchange on the anchor leg....

Adorable Canadian Child Sends Medal To DQ'd Relay Team, Accurately Describes Canada As "Cold"

Well isn't this fricking precious? Ten-year-old Elijah Porter was heartbroken when the Canadian 4x100 team appeared to take bronze, only to be disqualified for running outside the lane. So Elijah sent a letter to Justyn Warner, Gavin Smellie, Jared Connaughton, and Oluseyi Smith, and included his me...

Jamaica Set A New 4x100m Record With A Blistering 36.85 Seconds Around The Track

A Jamaican relay team anchored by Usain Bolt obliterated the world 4x100 record in running a 36.85 and holding off U.S. team that itself ran a world record-tying 37.04....

You Taste Of America, Jason Lezak

There's no better motivation for an American in the Olympics than Frenchy getting in your face and predicting victory. "I will let you go, Ricky. But first, I want you to say ... 'I love crepes.' " Jason Lezak outsprinted Alain Bernard of France in the anchor leg as the U.S. men — Michael Phelps, Ga...