Last update on. From the section OlympicsMitchell-Blake (right), suffers an agonising loss on the line, as Filippo Tortu finishes fast for ItalyTokyo 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.The sprint relay teams from Britain won silver and bronze medals. However, the men's quartet missed out on the 4x100m title with a mere one hundredth of a second.Filippo Tortu won the victory over Nethaneel Mitchel-Blake, the man who helped Britain win world gold in 2017.An earlier attempt at Rio bronze was made by Asha Philip, Imani–Lara Lansiquot and Dina Asher Smith.Gold was won by the Jamaican team that had all three 100m individual medallists.Briana Williams joined Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser–Pryce in a team that surpassed all expectations. They won in 41.02 seconds, which is well ahead of the United States.Great Britain looked set to win their first track and fields title at the Games, when Richard Kilty used excellent opening legs by CJ Ujah (Zharnel Hughes) and a spectacular bend from Zharnel.Mitchell-Blake, the American world champion Christian Coleman, was defeated by Tortu, who was less well-known in the last steps.Mitchell-Blake's disappointment contrasted with Italy's joy as they won a fifth gold medal in athletics at the Games. This was after Marcell Lamont Jacobs' 100m win, Gianmarco Tamberi winning high jump and a pair race walk titles.Mitchell-Blake said, "I apologise if I seem ungrateful at the beginning," and his frustration was evident after he was pipped on line after leading until the last metre."It's not that we didn't put in a lot of effort and work into this, but we believe we are the best quartet anywhere and we want to show it when the time is right."After seeing gold slip from his grasp, Mitchell-Blake was consoled (right) by KiltyThe semi-finals saw Great Britain's women quartet set a national record at 41.55, moving faster than their bronze medal at Rio 2016 and silver at Doha 2019.Although they were unable match the time in the final, they overcame a tense first baton exchange between Philip & Lansiquot to make Neita the best of the rest. She took over the anchor leg.They were finished in 41.88 seconds. This was 0.2 seconds faster than the fourth-placed Swiss.Philip said, "This is a great team and I love competing against them." We are competitors against each other, but we have such good chemistry that we love it on track because we all want a medal.The men's 4x400m will not be medalled for Great Britain.After finishing sixth in their semi final, Cameron Chalmers and Joseph Brier, Lee Thompson, and Michael Ohioze were unable to make Saturday's final. The United States qualified fastest, with Michael Norman and Michael Cherry as individual finalists.After claiming sixth place in the individual final, Great Britain's women's teams were fourth fastest to qualify for Saturday's final (13:30 BST).
