Olympic land men's 400m relay Japan baton connection

In the final of the Tokyo Olympics, the men's 400m relay on land, Shuhei Tada, Ryota Yamagata, Yoshihide Kiryu, and Yuki Koike faced Japan from the first run, and Yamagata from the first run to the second run. The player's baton pass did not connect the baton, and he did not win the medal following the Rio de Janeiro tournament.

Even if you attack with the baton of "household art", it is a mistake

Japan, which was the slowest time in the qualifying among the eight teams that advanced to the final, showed an "offensive baton pass" in the final, but ended up with a mistake and could not finish, and won the medal for the second consecutive tournament. It didn't become.

In the qualifying held on the 5th, Japan took the strategy of "safety baton" to prevent mistakes and surely connect the batons, and entered the 3rd place of the qualifying group and advanced to the final in the order of finish.

However, the time was 38.16, the slowest of the eight teams that advanced to the final, and at the Rio de Janeiro tournament five years ago when there were no players in the 9-second range, they set a new Asian record of 37.68 in qualifying. However, considering that he won the silver medal by extending the time to 37.60 in the final with that momentum, it was a little short of record.

After the qualifying, all the players said, "The final will be an offensive baton," and started a strategy to take more risk and shorten the time with the baton pass, which is said to be the best technology in the world.

Specifically, it is a strategy to accelerate the timing when the player who receives the baton starts running, and while there is an advantage that the baton can be received in a more accelerated state, if it comes out too early, there is a risk that it will not be connected in the zone where the baton pass is 30 meters long. There was also.

Shinji Takahira, a silver medalist in the Beijing Olympics men's 400m relay, predicted that the final would be a medal, and said, "Can Tada in the first run and Yamagata in the second run take the lead in order to win the gold medal? Is the key. It is also important that each person can improve their running ability with the baton. "

Japan started in 9 lanes outside Ogai in the final and wanted to make a development to escape from the beginning, but as a result of attacking from the first half, knowing the risk and holding the key, the baton of "household art" came out and the race I finished.