Sha'Carri Richardson and her US teammates have won the Olympics women's 4x100m relay gold in spectacular style as their male counterparts found a way to butcher their event.
Yet again.
Richardson, the reigning 100m world champion and Olympic silver medallist, ran an astonishing anchor leg to lift the lift the US to gold in 41.78 seconds on Friday night.
The Americans were in third spot when Richardson took the baton from 200m individual gold medallist Gabby Thomas but she motored home ahead of Britain and Germany.
“The moment that I would describe is realising that when we won as USA ladies, it was a phenomenal feeling for all of us," said Richardson.
The stacked team also included Thomas, 100m bronze medallist Melissa Jefferson and Twanisha Terry.
It was a first Olympic gold for the 24-year-old Richardson, who missed the 2020 Tokyo Games after testing positive for marijuana and being hit with a one-month ban.
But if the US women were flawless on a rare wet night at the Stade de France, the men were anything but.
Christian Coleman and Kenny Bednarek completely botched the first change and after crossing the line seventh the Americans were later disqualified, extending their run without an Olympic 4x100m medal of any colour to 20 long years.
"Obviously we all are going to be hard on ourselves," said Coleman.
"Track and field is an individual sport so we do our own thing in sprinting.
"So when we come together as a team, that's the fun part of it.
"Obviously, it's a little disappointing, especially for America, because we wanted to do it, we wanted to bring it home, we knew we had the speed to do it.
"It just didn't happen.'
The US team were without 100m indiviudal gold medallist Noah Lyles, who was carried from the stadium in a wheelchair after finishing third in the 200m the previous evening and later revealed he had COVID.
A Canadian squad including Tokyo Olympics 200m gold medallist Andre de Grasse took the gold in 37.50 ahead of South Africa and Britain.
"To be out with these guys, my brothers, I’ve been with them since the beginning of time, so it’s amazing," said de Grasse who now boasts a tally of seven Olympic medals over three Games, including the full set of gold, silver and bronze in the 4x100m.
"We talked about this moment for years."
Nafissatou Thiam from Belgium (6880 points) hung tough to become the first-ever three-time Olympic heptathlon gold medallist.
Thiam needed to finish within eight seconds of Katarina Johnson-Thompson in the concluding 800m and she achieved it - just - despite the two-time world champ from Britain clocking a personal best of 2:04.90.
American Rai Benjamin (46.46) upstaged world record holder Karsten Warholm from Norway and Brazilian Alison dos Santos to win the men's 400m hurdles.
Marileidy Paulino from the Dominican Republic stormed to victory in the women's 400m in an Olympic record time of 48.17.
