{"id":13337,"date":"2012-08-09T14:19:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T12:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/olympics-athletics-jamaica-crash-out-in-mens-4x400m-relay\/"},"modified":"2012-08-09T14:19:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T12:19:30","slug":"olympics-athletics-jamaica-crash-out-in-mens-4x400m-relay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/olympics-athletics-jamaica-crash-out-in-mens-4x400m-relay\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics-Athletics-Jamaica crash out in men’s 4x400m relay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Neil Maidment<\/span><\/p>\n

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LONDON<\/span> Aug 9 (Reuters) – Jamaica’s bid for the men’s 4×400
\nmetres relay gold was cut short by injury on Thursday when
\nJermaine Gonzales pulled up with an injury in the third leg of
\ntheir heat.<\/p>\n

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The world championship bronze medallists, who had fancied
\ntheir chances of ending America’s dominance in the event, looked
\ndevastated with Gonzales on his knees in despair.<\/p>\n

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Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man, had said on Wednesday
\nthere was a slim chance he might have run in the final for
\nJamaica.<\/p>\n

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The heat was won by Beijing silver medallists the Bahamas
\nwith a season’s best of 2 minutes 58.87 seconds, nipping just in
\nfront of world champions and winners of the event at the last
\nseven Olympics, the United States.<\/p>\n

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Joining them in Friday’s final will be medal contenders
\nTrinidad and Tobago and Britain, who finished first and second
\nin the day’s first heat.<\/p>\n

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South Africa’s double-amputee Oscar Pistorius’s much
\nanticipated run never materialised after his compatriot Ofentse
\nMogawane collided with Kenya’s Vincent Mumo Kiilu on the last
\nbend of the second leg and was too hurt to continue.<\/p>\n

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Pistorius, who races wearing carbon fibre prosthetic blades
\nafter being born without a fibula in both legs, stood with his
\nhands on his head but stayed to clap his race rivals home.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Neil Maidment; editing by Mark Meadows)<\/p>\n

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\t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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