Bromell? In two previous races this season, he ran the third leg each time. He was set to anchor the 4x1 in Rio but, of course, got hurt. He has not led off a 4x1 since the opening round of the 2015 world championships in Beijing.
Baker's last 4x1 was in 2018. He ran a third leg on a team where the others were far more accomplished: Christian Coleman, Justin Gatlin, Mike Rodgers.
Gillespie, ranked 17th in the world in the 100m entering these Games, last anchored a 4x1 in the heats at the Doha 2019 worlds, a team carried by Coleman, Gatlin and Rodgers. He anchored six 4x1s in his entire collegiate/pro career.
Gillespie said, “I felt like our handoffs were pretty good in practice and in warmups. Just come out here and it wasn’t clicking. It’s frustrating to come out here and go home with nothing at all. You wait this many years to make the team, it’s the hardest team to make, so you want to get a chance when you get at this.
“… To me it was frustrating not making the 100 and so on and so forth. This was my chance to grab me a medal.”
Asked if he was familiar with the longstanding relay woes, he said, of course:
“For me, now that I’m a part of it, now I can understand it. From the outside looking in: 'They should have done this, they should have done that.’ It’s definitely, I don’t want to throw anybody under the bus, that’s not my job in this interview, but you know it definitely — we definitely have to get more practice in.
“For us, a lot of the countries run the same team. That’s what people have to realize. A lot of countries run the same team the last five, six, seven, eight, nine years. Obviously, that’s exaggerating a little bit. But most years, the U.S. team is the hardest team to make. So we go up and down on who makes the team every year…
“So you basically have a new team every year. And so that’s the kind of frustrating thing. Getting that communication, getting that camaraderie together. And, you know, coming out here and handling our business.”
Asked when this team first started practicing, Gillespie first answered, “Man, let’s say not too long ago.”
Three days ago? Four?
“Two days ago.”
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