Team GB Men’s 4x100m Olympic Relay – Greatest Moment, Baton Drops and Disqualifications

THE 4x100 meter relay is held by the US at the Olympics.But the baton drop and the failed pass hit Team GB. Here's how they went over the years.

As record holders and winners 15 times the American team went to the Athens Olympics in 2004 as a favorite. But Team GB is looking at Greece looking to break the dominance of their main rival.

The American team boasts 100m gold medalist Justin Gatlin, bronze medalist Maurice Greene and 200m champion Shawn Crawford.
Team GB failed to get its runners to the Athens 100m and 200meters finals, making them the underdogs.

The drama takes place in GB and the US is dragging on.

Crawford and Greene as well as Darvis Patton and Coby Miller brought home the bat in first place with a time of 38.02, while Jason Gardener of GG, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish and Mark Lewis-Francis followed with 38.53 for the best season.

The US brought in big guns to put Patton in the final place with newly crowned 100m champion Gatlin.

The unchanging British team are ranked in the third lane with the US where they see it in the fifth lane.

With a false start about him, Gardener ran his first blind coat and gave Campbell a neck and neck with Crawford.

Gatlin's second-legged leg looks set to put the US in the first lead but a bad change in Miller let GB go ahead.

The last complete change from Devonish to Lewis-Francis saw Britain with a small lead heading in the end but Lewis-Francis took the former world champion Greene who chased him to the finish line.

It was a bittersweet moment when the two crossed the line together, but Lewis-Francis' dip forced his chest over the line first - a 0.01 second victory.

The Athens victory was only Team GB's second victory in the 4x100 meters.
Their previous victory came for the first time when the race was contested in the 1912 Stockholm Games.
The British David Jacobs, Henry Macintosh, Willie Applegarth and Victor d'Arcy ran home in a time of 42.4 seconds.
Since 2004 Britain or the US have never received this event.