Last update on. From the section OlympicsIn their heat, the United States 4x100m Team finished second to China, Canada and Italy.Tokyo Olympic Games on BBC Dates: 23 Jul-8 Aug Time in Tokyo: BST+8. Listen live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer and BBC Red Button; Listen live on BBC Radio 5 Live, Sports Extra, and Sounds; Live text and video clips available on BBC Sport app and website.American sprint legend Carl Lewis said that the failure of the USA's 4x100m men’s team to reach Tokyo 2020's final was a "total embarrassment".With a time of 38.10 seconds, the United States quartet of Trayvon, Fred Kerley and Ronnie Baker came in sixth place in their heat.Lewis stated that the USA team "did everything wrong" in the men's relay."The passing system is flawed, athletes are running the wrong legs and there was no leadership."China won the heat with 37.92 seconds, Canada was second (just two thousandths of a second) and Italy was third with 37.95. They qualified for the final.Germany (38.06) was fourth, while Ghana (38.08) was fifth. They also won the heat ahead of the USA.External-link Lewis posted a social media post in which he compared the US team to the country's amateur athletes.He wrote, "It was an embarrassment and totally unacceptable for a USA football team to look worse that the AAU (Amateur Athletic Union), kids I saw."Michael Johnson, the four-time Olympic gold medallist from USA, was also critical of team performance.He wrote that "this isn't rocket science" on social media. External-linkIt takes practice to get two people to exchange a baton in a 20-metre radius."Embarrassingly ridiculous and absurd."From the 4x100m heat, Japan, Great Britain, and Jamaica qualified for the final.The US team won this event at the 2019 World Championships, but they haven't won an Olympic 4x100m gold medal since 2000.They won silver at Athens 2004 when they were the last to win a medal in the Olympic race.Gillespie said, "Honestly, I don't even know," when asked about the problems with the team."We have to get up for the [worlds] championships next year and the next Olympics, because this is unacceptable."Kerly, who was a silver medallist at the Tokyo men's 100m final, said: "We just couldn't get it done, no excuses."
