{"id":612886,"date":"2021-08-05T13:37:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=612886"},"modified":"2021-08-05T13:37:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:37:06","slug":"track-and-field-legend-carl-lewis-rips-u-s-team-for-performance-in-mens-4x100-relay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/track-and-field-legend-carl-lewis-rips-u-s-team-for-performance-in-mens-4x100-relay\/","title":{"rendered":"Track And Field Legend Carl Lewis Rips U.S. Team For Performance In Men\u2019s 4\u00d7100 Relay"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrack-and-field-legend-carl-lewis-rips-u-s-team-for-performance-in-mens-4x100-relay%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=612886&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1015384428.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>For the fourth straight Olympics, the U.S. men\u2019s team will fail to medal in the 4\u00d7100 meter relay, after placing six in qualifying on Thursday. Carl Lewis \u2014 a 10-time Olympic medalist \u2014 can no longer stay silent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe USA team did everything wrong in the men\u2019s relay,\u201d Lewis said on Twitter. \u201cThe passing system is wrong, athletes running the wrong legs, and it was clear that there was no leadership. It was a total embarrassment, and completely unacceptable for a USA team to look worse than the AAU kids I saw.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.427672955975\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The USA team did everything wrong in the men&#8217;s relay. The passing system is wrong, athletes running the wrong legs, and it was clear that there was no leadership. It was a total embarrassment, and completely unacceptable for a USA team to look worse than the AAU kids I saw .<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carl Lewis (@Carl_Lewis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Carl_Lewis\/status\/1423114725802614785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sprinters Fred Kerley and Ronnie Baker bobbled the baton pass between the second and third led, causing Baker to have to slow down, and the U.S. team was unable to recover as China, Canada, Italy, Germany and Ghana all qualified for the final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a lot on our shoulders when we go out there and wear this uniform, because you\u2019re expected to meet the expectation; you\u2019re expected to get gold,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/olympics\/2021\/08\/05\/us-relay-baton-exchange-failure-tokyo-olympics\/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">said<\/a> Cravon Gillespie, who ran the anchor leg. \u201cWhen you go out there and don\u2019t even make the final, it\u2019s crazy, man. It\u2019s just crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just didn\u2019t get the job done today. That\u2019s all,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/olympics\/story\/_\/id\/31961146\/us-men-fail-advance-4x100-relay-final-track-field-tokyo-olympics\">said<\/a> Kerley.<\/p>\n<p>The understatement of the year according to Lewis\u2019 comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a football coach taking a team to the Super Bowl and losing 99-0 because they were completely ill-prepared,\u201d Lewis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2021\/08\/04\/carl-lewis-us-relay-failure-reach-olympic-final-clown-show\/5494410001\/\">said<\/a> in a phone interview with USA TODAY Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unacceptable. It\u2019s so disheartening to see this because it\u2019s people\u2019s lives. We\u2019re just playing games with people\u2019s lives. That\u2019s why I\u2019m so upset. It\u2019s totally avoidable. And America is sitting there rooting for the United States and then they have this clown show. I can\u2019t take it anymore. It\u2019s just unacceptable. It is not hard to do the relay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many have pointed to the lack of practice time together as the reason why the men\u2019s team has fallen short in past years, making Lewis\u2019 statement about the team being \u201cill-prepared\u201d seem warranted. After the race, Kerley was asked how much the team practiced for the race and said \u201cDon\u2019t know,\u201d with Baker saying \u201cNot much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen Ronnie Baker run a turn in my life,\u201d Lewis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2021\/08\/04\/carl-lewis-us-relay-failure-reach-olympic-final-clown-show\/5494410001\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cGo back and watch the third leg, look at him, he looks like he\u2019s running on ice because he\u2019s never run a turn. He doesn\u2019t run the (individual) 200, so why is he running a turn when he never runs a turn?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been talking about this forever,\u201d Lewis continued. \u201cThe relay program has been a disaster for years because there\u2019s no leadership and no system. When I said everything is wrong, it is. If you break it down, people were in the wrong legs, obviously they were not taught how to pass the baton in those legs. Just simple things like that. I watched it. I\u2019m not blaming the athletes so much. This was leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. relay team has had years of struggles in the race.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Darvis Patton and Tyson Gray dropped the baton on the final leg, and in 2012 the U.S. team had the silver medal taken away after Gray was found to be guilty of doping. In 2016, the men\u2019s team was disqualified after a baton pass took place in an area where it was not allowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so frustrated because I\u2019m so passionate about those three letters, USA,\u201d Lewis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2021\/08\/04\/carl-lewis-us-relay-failure-reach-olympic-final-clown-show\/5494410001\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s why. I love my country. I love winning. That\u2019s what gets me. How can we let the United States down so much in an unacceptable way like that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers, and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to sports@dailywire.com.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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