With world records smashed and dozens of personal best times achieved on its speedy track, Tokyo's Olympic athletics programme is proving to be one of the most memorable for decades.
For an ever-growing number of what is normally an all-powerful United States' men's team, however, these are fast becoming the Games to forget.
"At this point in the 2019 World Championships, U.S. men had won seven of an eventual nine gold medals," former American sprint champion Michael Johnson wrote on Twitter. "So far only 1 gold in Tokyo with 8 medals remaining up for grabs as I write this." On paper at least, impressive results at June's U.S. trials suggested a Tokyo gold rush was in store for the men as well.
"The USA team did everything wrong in the men's relay," nine-times Olympic gold medallist Carl Lewis said on Twitter. "The passing system is wrong, athletes running the wrong legs, and it was clear that there was no leadership. It was a total embarrassment."
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