Total control: United States’ Dalilah Muhammad (second from right) running after receiving the baton from teammate Allyson Felix during the women’s 4x400m relay final. — AFP
TOKYO: The United States men’s team won their first gold in athletics at the Tokyo Olympics, clinching the 4x400m relay by a massive margin.
This was the final chance for the American men to avoid the ignominy of not winning a gold on the track for the first time in the Games’ 125-year history – barring their boycott year in 1980 – and they left it to the very last event.
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