PARIS, CMC – In a surprising flip, perennial relay powerhouse Jamaica was eradicated within the semifinal spherical of the lads’s 4×100 meters relay on the Paris Olympics on Thursday.
The 100m silver medalist Kishane Thompson, Jehlani Gordon, Ackeem Blake, and Jelani Walker completed fourth in Warmth 2 in a season’s finest 38.45 seconds, to overlook out on a spot within the ultimate by .06 of a second.
The Jamaicans suffered from two poor baton adjustments over the past two handovers, and regardless of Thompson’s efforts to make up the bottom on the ultimate leg, he fell simply brief.
China gained the warmth in 38.24 seconds, France second in 38.34, and Canada third in 34.39 seconds.
Favorites, the US of America, romped to victory in Warmth 1 in 37.47 seconds, effectively forward of South Africa (37.94) and Nice Britain (38.04), who completed second and third, respectively, to advance to the ultimate.
Jamaica’s feminine crew of Alana Reid, Kemba Nelson, Shashalee Forbes, and Tia Clayton fared higher than their male counterparts, ending third in Warmth 2 in 42.35 to routinely qualify for the ultimate of the ladies’s 4×100 meters relay because the sixth quickest.
Trinidad and Tobago’s crew of Akilah Lewis, Sole Frederick, Sanaa Frederick, and Leah Bertrand didn’t advance after ending eighth in the identical warmth in 43.99 seconds.
That warmth was gained by Nice Britain in 42.03, with France second in 42.13 seconds.
USA’s ladies had been additionally dominant in Warmth 1, successful comfortably in 41.94 seconds, relegating Germany (41.25) and Switzerland (42.38) to second and third, respectively.
Elsewhere, it was a troublesome morning for Caribbean athletes.
Jamaicans Lloydricia Cameron (18.02 meters) and Daniel Thomas-D0dd (18.12 meters), together with Trinidad and Tobago’s Portious Warren (17.22 meters), all didn’t advance previous the qualifying rounds of the ladies’s shot put.
Emelia Chatfield of Haiti and Denisha Cartwright of the Bahamas additionally didn’t qualify for the ladies’s 100-metre hurdles Repechage spherical, posting occasions of 13.24 and 13.45, respectively.
In the meantime, within the males’s 800 meters Repechage spherical, Dennick Luke of Dominica, Handal Roban of St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Jamaica’s Navasky Anderson all didn’t qualify for the semifinals.
Luke set a nationwide document of 1:46.81 to complete sixth in Warmth 1, Roban was fourth in Warmth 2 in 1:45.80, and Anderson was fifth in 1:46.01.
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