What’s up with the Olympic relay races? If teams aren’t dropping the baton, they are passing it out of the zone.
The female 100m relay finals were just run and Russia won gold, Belgium got the silver, with Nigeria for bronze..all unexpected medalists.
The heavily favored female Jamaican and American sprint teams went out, while Great Britain, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine and Poland were also disqualified. All had baton errors…
The men’s finals did not fare much better, with every single 2004 Olympic medal winning team out; the defending gold medalists Great Britain out after passing the baton out of the zone, the Americans dropping and Nigeria also out. South Africa and Poland also went out with a drop…..this ended up giving the unlikely team from Japan a bronze medal, with the Jamaicans winning in world record time with Trinidad for the silver.
In the end this shows, you can be as fast as you want – you need to hold onto the damn baton.