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Team USA wins gold in men's 4x400-meter relay at Paris Olympics

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Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Team USA needed to set an Olympic record to win the men’s 4x400-meter relay on Saturday to win the gold medal in the race at the Paris Games.

The team of Christopher Bailey, Vernon Norwood, Bryce Deadmon and Rai Benjamin narrowly defeated Botswana and Great Britain.

The American set an Olympic record of 2:54.43 with the win. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Botswana's Letsile Tebogo and US' Rai Benjamin compete in the men's 4x400m relay final of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 10, 2024. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images) The Americans turned around a comeback victory of sorts.

Team USA was keeping a brisk pace on the first lap as Bailey handed the baton to Norwood. The veteran runner then battled Botswana’s Busang Collen Kebinatshipi and got ahead of him as he passed to Deadmon.

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Rai Benjamin anchored the United States to victory in the Paris Olympics 2024 men's 4x400m relay in Paris on Saturday. Benjamin, the winner of the 400m hurdles gold, helped the US quartet also featuring Christopher Bailey, Vernon Norwood and Bryce Deadmon to an Olympic record of 2 minutes and 54.43 seconds. Botswana, with 200m champion Letsile Tebogo on their fourth leg, took silver in an African record of 2:54.53, while Great Britain claimed bronze in a European record of 2:55.83. The US team's individual 400m gold medallist in Paris, Quincy Hall, was not a starter in the relay.
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Rai Benjamin anchored the United States to victory in the Paris Olympics 2024 men's 4x400m relay in Paris on Saturday. Benjamin, the winner of the 400m hurdles gold, helped the US quartet also featuring Christopher Bailey, Vernon Norwood and Bryce Deadmon to an Olympic record of 2 minutes and 54.43 seconds. Botswana, with 200m champion Letsile Tebogo on their fourth leg, took silver in an African record of 2:54.53, while Great Britain claimed bronze in a European record of 2:55.83. The US team's individual 400m gold medallist in Paris, Quincy Hall, was not a starter in the relay.

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