Doha (AFP)
The US relays, including 100 m world champion Christian Coleman and 200 m Noah Lyles, won Saturday the 4x100 m Doha World Cup.
The United States (Christian Coleman, Justin Gatlin, Michael Rodgers, Noah Lyles), winners in 37 sec 10, the third performance of all time, beat Britain (Adam Gemili, Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty, Mitchell Nethaneel -Blake), defending champion (37 sec 36), and Japan (Shuhei Tada, Kirara Shiraishi, Kiryu Yoshihide, Abdul Hakim Sani Brown), 3rd in 37 sec 43.
This is the first US world title in 12 years and the advent of Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt, retired in 2017.
Coleman and Lyles leave Qatar with two gold medals each in their pocket.
For France (Amaury Golitin, Jimmy Vicaut, Meba-Mickaël Zeze, Christophe Lemaitre), the final did not last very long since the Blues have not managed to pass the stick from the first relay passage between Golitin and Vicaut, as a symbol of a new dark day (no medals, many against-performances in the long run and 100 m hurdles) in the Missed Championships.
Christophe Lemaitre, who had skipped the 200m and had not been lined up in the 4x100m relay series on Friday before being selected as the last runner for the final, crossed the line while walking without the stick. never reached him, so he will not compete in Doha.
"I bet very hard," said Lemaitre in the mixed zone, "for the 200m, I wanted it, so I have no regrets, but the team can not run this race. Final, it's very frustrating, it's undesirable compared to the application and work of recent times, and not at all revealing the potential of this time. "
"Jimmy has made a big start, stronger than usual, perhaps transcended by the event, tried to explain the coach of the relay Dimitri Demoniere.From the images, it nevertheless leaves + to mark + (as it was agreed) (...) It's terrible for everyone ".
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