Bahamas win men’s 4x400m relay

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Bahamas win men’s 4x400m relay

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Great Britain’s 4x400m relay men missed out on an Olympic medal by 0.13 seconds as the Bahamas took a surprise gold from the USA and Trinidad and Tobago. Anchorman Martyn Rooney ran a storming final leg of 44,1 seconds but could not quite close in to snatch bronze.

  Dai Greene, captain of the British athletics team, had come in to replace Nigel Levine from the quartet that qualified from the heats.

  But his third leg of 45,5 seconds may bring that decision into question.

  Conrad Williams’s 45,0 had Britain in fourth after the first leg before Jack Green’s 44,8 maintained that position.

  Bahamas anchor leg Ramon Miller held off Angelo Taylor to set a new national record of two minutes 56.72 seconds, with the US clocking 2:57,05 and Trinidad and Tobago 2:59,40.

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