Tokyo Olympics day 8: Friday 6 August

[RunUnlimited]

Lanisquot ****ed it up.

She went out way too early.

[trickstat]

3rd after 2 awful changes (if not DQ'd?)

[Occasional Hope]

Good last leg from Neita there.

[Occasional Hope]

National record for Jamaica.

[RunUnlimited]

Just made it, but went out too early. A better exchange between first and second leg and we'd have been going for silver.

[Iain27]

Pretty sure Lansiquot was out the box

[trickstat]

She can be out of the box as long as her hand is still in it when Phillip lets go of the baton.

[RunUnlimited]

Nah, they made the exchange *just* within the box. Also, the official on the side of the track didn't raise a red flag to signal an infringement.

[Iain27]

Both Lansiquot and Thompson-Herah were definitely out of the box - just depends on the hands.

[trickstat]

The Swiss last exchange wasn't good and made 3rd place easier to get.

[jjimbojames]

I think Imani slammed on the breaks

[RunUnlimited]

The result is official now. Bronze for Great Britain.

[RunUnlimited]

With better exchanges, I think GB would get the silver. If we had a fully race fit Dina, that European record would also have gone too.

[trickstat]

It is sort of a good sign that we have a team that can still recover and get the baton round when they make mistakes.

[carterhatch]

fair play to the 4x100 ladies, they went for the very limit, but none of the exchanges were great ... Neita saved the day!

[MysteryBrick]

I think GB went for gold and messed up with stretched changes. Still, 41.88 would have been a British record pre-2016 and they looked bad. Shows the footspeed we now have.

[trickstat]

It wasn't that long ago that our record still stood from the 1980 Olympics!

[RunUnlimited]

China's men's relay team with the homage to Street Fighter 2 and Ryu there... nice! XD

[alfie]

The changes weren't the best : looks as if that first change was just legal 🤞... But DAS did what DAS does ...and Neita ran an outstanding anchor ...

Bronze is good for today : they have more in them though. Watch this space...

[RunUnlimited]

What a run by Italy!