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Caribbeans rule the roost

AFP, Beijing
US Olympic athletics favourites crumbled under challenges from Caribbean stars and arch foes Thursday with 4xl00-meter relays ousted in heats and Olympic 400m champion Jeremy Wariner settling for silver.
Botched final handoffs eliminated the American relays, finishing a US sprint disaster that saw Jamaicans claim men's and women's 100 and 200 crowns and become favourites to sweep weekend relay finals as well with the early US exits.
The Americans were haunted by the shocking failures in the relays, which ensured that no US sprint relay would win an Olympic medal. Not counting the 1980 US Olympic boycott, the only time that happened was when relays debuted in 1912.
"It's very humbling for Team USA," US women's anchor leg Lauryn Williams said. "We're going to hold our heads high and get throughit."
World 100m and 200m champion Tyson Gay could not grab the baton from Darvis Patton on the
final curve, ending Gay's last chance for gold in Beijing.
"I don't know what happened," Gay said. "(Patton) said the stick was in my hand. I think I felt it, but it wasn't in all the way before I grabbed it. I take the blame for it. It was my fault."
Just minutes later, Torri Edwards failed to connect with Lauryn Williams on the last exchange to make US agony complete.
Williams, the 2005-world 100m champion, muffed the final exchange with Marion Jones four years ago in the Olympic women's 4x100 relay final. The American women are nine-time Olympic champions, but most recently in 1996.
"If people want to issue the blame to me that's OK," Williams said. "I can take whatever it is that people are going to dish out"
Two-time world champion Wariner's head was hanging as he crossed the finish line second in the 400 final to arch rival LaShawn Merritt, who avenged a runner-up showing to Wariner at last year's worlds in their biggest showdown.
Merritt seized command coming off the turn and won in a lifetime best 43.75 seconds, a time only four runners in history have bettered. Wariner was a stunned second in 44.74 with David Neville completing a US sweep in 44.80.
"LaShawn ran a better race than me," Wariner said. "I felt good coming off the turn but when I went for it wasn't there. I didn't have anything left. I ran the best I could."
The best prior time for Merritt was 43.96 from his loss to Wariner in last year's worlds.
"I have been waiting for this moment for four years. I trained harder than ever this year," Merritt said.
Cuba's Dayron Robles won the 110m hurdles in 12.93 seconds with Americans David Payne second in 13.17 and David Oliver third in 13.18 in an event where Chinese fans mourned the absence of injured hero Liu Xiang.
"I'm ecstatic that I am Olympic champion. It has always been my dream,” said Robles. "It's disappointing Liu was not able to be here in the final, but I'm surehe will come back and we will have a really good rivalry next year in the world championships."Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown defended her Olympic 200m title with US star Allyson Felix settling for second for the second Olympics in a row.
"It's great to come out and defend my gold medal," Campbell-Brown said. "It has been great to see Jamaica get a clean sweep of the sprints. Now I have to concentrate on the relays." US runners have no such worry. Patton thought the handover was going well with Gay, his teammate on the reigning world champion squad, before the fall.
"I thought he had it. but he didn't," Patton said. "We're all very disappointed."
US men have won 15 4x100 relay gold medals, most recently in 2000, but lost to Britain in a 2004 shocker.
That British triumph will not be repeated this time after Marlon Devonish failed to complete passing the stick in the zone to anchor man Craig Pickering and the team was disqualified.
American Bryan Clay led the decathlon after five events with 4521 points on the first day of competition in the 10-event discipline, 88 more than second-place Andrei Krauchanka of Belarus,
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