SAINT-DENIS, France — No issues with this men’s relay team.
The quartet of Christopher Bailey, Vernon Norwood, Bryce Deadmon and Rai Benjamin completed the four laps around the track in an Olympic-record 2:54.43 to claim U.S. gold in the men’s 4×400 relay for the fifth time in the last six Olympics.
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Benjamin, the gold medalist in Friday’s 400-meter hurdles, began the anchor leg with a lead and fought off Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo — the 200m gold medalist — at the finish line.
Botswana took silver with a time of 2:54.53. Great Britain took the bronze in 2:55.83.
One night earlier, the 4×100 relay team — featuring some of the fastest men in the
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