Felix wins 11th medal; USA dream team wins 4x400m gold (With Replays) | Tokyo Olympics | NBC Sports

it's time for the final two track events of Tokyo twenty twenty and first up it's the women's four by four hundred meter relay so what's on the line here at our there's a seventh straight gold medal okay U. S. seven Diggs today Sidney's birthday so what a great way to bring a gold medal for team USA on your birthday the mention guys I've never seen a team that won the four hundred meter winner this if you want to make this let me check eight hundred meters four hundred meter hurdles I'm going for an unprecedented this team is absolutely incredible they put anybody in any position Sydney on first like the great choice I'm looking for something to go around forty nine five for team USA to be on pace to break the American record it is about the hand to her mentor training partner and friend Allyson Felix she has spoken about how much he's learned from coach Bobby Kersee I'm just playing around Allyson Felix you're watching final a stunning Korea so fifty point two for Sydney McLaughlin but I have to mention that the first leg of the four by four usually runs the longest like if they go through his own sometimes four hundred to fourteen fifteen meters Allison can be at forty nine forty eight high they are still on to break the American record this is Allison Felix fourth consecutive Olympic final for the United States but pulled into make up are a lot closer than we thought they'd be a thousand lives on a familiar leg she knows exactly what she's doing she's gonna port it on right now coming home you may have noticed a looking up quite a bit these big screens this huge monitors at either end of the stadium witnessed chasing her down Diggs on you take off on third leg it looks really good Allyson Felix only forty nine five forty eight seconds though they could make up some time and still be on paper dot I think the best to me so far of the three lanes that run their four hundred meter like so many people on social media this week to the point what can these women run without barriers well you're finding out tonight team USA with a very healthy lead the twenty sixteen four hundred meter hurdles gold medalist and previous world record holder has put in a final gold medalist may be it is pretty much over now I think it's not forty nine she got out and never get anything back %HESITATION we get to see her many times he still conservative but see if when she's the most beautiful and most dangerous she looks thanks for final this will be a really fast but upping mold has put the hammer down for her entire leg she said she didn't take anything for granted Diggs Diggs Diggs with metals and that was this performance ever I think forty eight by herself the split and think about this eleven Olympic medals for Allyson Felix she is the most decorated American track and field athlete take a good look at your screen because you are unlikely to see somebody like this again in your lifetime Allyson Felix a prodigy was great in high school skip college turned pro and then has just been producing year after year if this is our final Olympics and she has said that it is then that's the way you want to go out with gold

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Length: 4min 52sec (292 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 07 2021