2004 Athens Summer Olympics Mens 4x100 Relay UK win Gold
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2011
- Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, and Mark Lewis-Francis -- Final, 38.07 (gold medal)
4x100m Relay - amazing display of baton passing that cannot be lost, every time I watch this I still grip the seat as we are nearly pipped at the post by the USA even though they muffed up on a baton pass. 
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I was 9 years old when I watched this and I vividly remember this race.
My dad is a huge pessimist when it comes to UK sports, he was completely silent until the last 50 meters and he got up and started shouting “RUN RUN RUN” I have never heard anyone shout so loud 😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
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Great Britain Great Run my Father is British
🤣 Such a cute story.
This race just goes to prove that you might have the fastest team on paper, like the States, but, you can lose if your baton changes are poor. Well done to the GB boys. Absolute legends.
Isn't that the truth. On paper, GB has absolultely no chance to beat the Americans. Yet they did it again today. Congrats GB.
Never look back. The incoming runner shouts hand, usually. The receiver then thrusts his hand back, grabs the baton and follows through for the first arm swing. Timing is critical!
@@thomasmckenzie4584 haha yes!!!
I just met Jason Gardener in Bath and congratulated his and his team-mates!
My goodness Maurice is the best
UK's race is the definition of "more than the sum of its parts". Those exchanges were simply phenomenal.
Yessir. Get the baton/stick around. That is what makes relays what they are. Running quickly is not enough.
Every country should watch this race if they wanna know how to do the baton change properly
@@artisticskillz01 absolutely!
@Wilfred "I Tapped Dat Ass" Kensington 2017 WC was crazy as well
Yep relay ain't just about running fast it's getting the baton round best. GB did and USA didn't
Watched this live and watched it again today, still gives me goosebumps, so happy for all these guys, especially Darren Campbell.
“They can’t catch me, they mustn’t catch me, they daren’t catch me”. That quote and Steve Cram’s commentary of “Mark Lewis Francis has a chance of glory here” is proper spine tingling! I remember this vividly watching it in hospital a day after my son was born 🇬🇧
I get a lot of nostalgia listening to Cram and Foster
That line gives me the exact same reaction, along with the line preceding it: "He's got Maurice Greene coming down on him!" Epic commentary (if you're British)
I miss T&F commentary like this.
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Boom
In 1
They can't catch me, they musnt catch me, they daren't catch me. What a line. Classic.
Remember that phrase as if was yesterday. Played it over and over.
Cram is a legend and last sub 3.47 mile runner who didn’t dope. The real world record holder for the mile
@@backintobalance9542lol it was Coleman who said it during the replay of the race. Cram said "Maurice Greene is coming" that gave me goosebumps when he couldn't get MLF
Is Az it was Stuart Storey commentating alongside Steve Cram. Great memories!
@@garyecclestone5944 thanks. Sorry I was so use to Coleman in that era & more😉
I found it on a VHS tape and imported it into the computer, it was recorded from the TV.
Thank you
THANK YOU
Why is there an ad??????
sim sim salabim what do you mean
god's work
One of my favourite races ever, mark lewis-francis' face after he crossed the line is what the olympics is all about!! Epic!!!
remembering watching this when I was 10, "Mark Lewis-Francis has a chance of glory here", still gives me that biggest adrenaline rush even today!
Thanks to whoever allowed this video back on RUclips, this was a terrific race and Steve Cram's commentary fills in the story.
And also Stuart Storey
If you watch at around 6:07-6:11, you'll see that Aliu and Greene both looked back before receiving the baton. MLF rightly didn't and that's where the gold was won
You're so right
Absolutely, every millisecond counts and could be the difference between gold, silver and bronze. Deji had a good shout for the gold as the 3rd leg had a fantastic race, but they mixed up the baton exchange ever so slightly. But Greene in the last 10 meters was moving like the thunderbolt
"Ohh that wasn't a good change for the Americans in fact it was TERRIBLE!" Gotta love this commentator.
Steve Cram is the best.
wor Crammie!
Of course Athletics fans know he was a great athlete himself - world champion and world record holder in the 1500 once upon a time
unfortunately these announcers are simply an interface between a mostly ignorant public and the sport itself. True track fans take them with a grain of salt
He didn't mention the disastrous final change for Nigeria. They would have done if....
@@MrStevecro Steve Cram wasn't just a commentator he was also a decorated athlete. Get your facts straight. 🙄🙄🙄
One of the greatest moments in UK sports history. A monumental and fantastic achievement
LUCKY
@@jw6680 , then watch this over & over until you figure it out
As a brit, this is quite possibly my favourite moment in British athletics because it was so unexpected yet incredible!
Always ruins my day when Brits win anything.
@@trevorwoodley3897 dry those salty tears princess
I remember this as a kid it was phenomenal 🇬🇧
@@trevorwoodley3897 TW@
@@trevorwoodley3897 So, pretty much every day is a pisser for you.
Shawn Crawford's prolonged stare @ the camera is Iconic!!
One of the BEST CALLS in a race EVER!!! It was riveting how that dude described Maurice Greene coming..... Was on the best closes I've EVER SEEN.....!!! Maurice Greene was spectacular!!!!
Considering the drugs Greene was on, it's no,surprise.
never a drug cheat, gatlin maybe but not greene, get your facts right
Definitely not one of the best closes you've ever seen. Greene was behind by maybe a meter when he got the baton and couldn't close the gap. I was shocked. No way he shouldn't have run down the Brit.
unfair - MG was never even suspected of being on the juice. One of the sports good guys. And I say that as a Brit who was there that night.
and the winning margin was? MLF was a bit of a tool but the lad was quick when he wanted to be.
It is true that this remains one of the best pieces of baton exchange ever seen on the world stage. Thank you for posting this. Unforgettable.
I always loved watching Steve Cram on the track with that long, elegant stride and ability to win from the front. But I'm amazed to say that I enjoy his commentary even more than I loved his running.
He's good
This is probably my favourite ever Olympic memory! Excellent technique and execution from all 4 of the British guys!
It was a perfect run.
Did you stop watching before Bolt ran?
I think this was one of the biggest surprises i have ever witnessed in Athletics. It was a bit like when Greece won the Euro championships.
I can remember watching this with my Dad. We were going ballistic when the Americans messed up their change and Britain entered the home straight in the lead.
Credit to Steve cram, he made it feel special, which it was!
tremendous commentator
Is one of the best commentators
My goodness, Maurice Greene's acceleration was incredible.
But not enough to win ...
Moist Gnome almost being the key word
@Moist Gnome Almost, didn't get him a gold medal. #facts
Fair enough, Greene didn’t catch him in time. But my god he flew!
@Moist Gnome Nothing 'lucky' about those perfect changeovers! That takes serious discipline and a large set of balls to pull of as well as they did on the biggest stage of all. Luck didn't play a part here.
8:00 onwards is just incredible.
Here after reading BBC Sport (Craig Nelson)'s Darren Campbell article, Campbell's reaction at 7:01 brings me to tears, respect xx
Me too. I always wondered why Darren wasn't with the other 3 right after the race.
So glad this is back on RUclips again, this version has the best commentary. Download it quick before the Olympic committee remove it for copyright!
Great Job Great Britain! Love from Malaysia
That handover by Marlon Devonish was absolutely flawless.
I've read that the standard swap is left hand, right hand, and so on, but how they can shout for the arm to come out in that kind of noisy environment, and take off at the right time to hit full speed before leaving the handover box, fucking blows my mind, these guys trained as solo sprinters, they adapted to be in a relay team, it's nothing short of phenomenal
The most incredible thing is the USA had 3 of their team in the 100m final. Great Britain had none.
Hahaha oh well 🇬🇧
Great response, practice and discipline can and do win short relays
GBR's baton exchanges were phenomenal 👏🏿 Maurice tore up that last leg but wasn't enough. Closest Olympic relay race I've ever seen ! So good 🙌🏿
Jason Gardener is sooo lucky that the 1 false start rule did not exist because that would've been unfortunate for them & USA would've won
Also, the commentary is what I live for ! Made all the hairs on my me stand up
Great moment ! 🔥🔥🔥
Mark Lewis-Francis' first two strides when he got the baton were immense. Cram's commentary top notch of course.
watching this live was one of the most emotional moments of my life !
Maurice Greene! What a race, what a call! 1-2 more meters & Greene may have ran him down. Shoutout to Great Britain. I was a 13 yr old Freshman at the time. I’ll never forget this race. Nostalgia
It’s called 4x100 meters not (4x100)+2m
@@user-ev7jw4th8j 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Close but no cigar 😁Greene was a powerhouse sprinter though .A all time great no doubt .
It gives you chills. They were beyond brilliant. Perfect.
Thank you so much for this. The clarity is amazing. Also as an American and self-described Anglophile, I enjoyed watching it from the British perspective.
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Thanks for uploading. I was there that night. I was looking down and saw them look back at each other as I was watching them. At that moment I knew something was going to happen. And as soon as Mark crossed the finish line, I knew we'd won. It was brilliant! I was screaming the whole time, and jumping up and down. I bought a poster and wanted to get all 4 guys to sign it so I could frame it. If anyone can help please let me know. I would never let it out of my sight. What a night! :-)
Thanks so much for uploading this ! My favourite sporting moment ever and i well up still 8 years later at seeing Darren Campbell cry xx baton changing was superb
Been searching for this version of the race forever. Thanks you very much!
When Nigeria had a team that could compete.
Whatever happened to you guys?
@@JediJide2 they stopped feeding our athletes literally
@@aminuabdullahi5922 corruption. Things fall apart, no sense of patriotism. Waste of time representing the flag of a failed nation
@@princeosars3298 As bitter as this sounds, you're absolutely correct😂😂
Nothing works well in the country...so you can imagine the little to no attention given to athletes/athletics. Most of our half-decent sportsmen/women have to cover their training,injury and rehabilitation costs by themselves, with no assistance from the government. Then when the time comes to compete, they're forced to don the colours of said country. So many bright prospects end up naturalising in other countries so they can realize their athletic dreams. Such a shame.
@@dajayjayzee Same thing happens in Kenya. It's a shame how much corrupt leaders arrest Africa's potential. And now we have to count on them to get us through the pandemic. We're doomed!
Gatlin, Crawford and Greene on that 4x1. This was equivalent to the "Dream Team" losing.
Crawford's start was horrible...
Gatlin great sprinter.... A history of bad exchanges is a questionable relay man asset
@@themoors4563 Well let's be real. This was the only chance Gatlin was going to win gold in relay.
@@chamindujanith6337 -2019
@@chicnoir29 At the Olympics.
And on August 12th, 2017, history repeated!
Fantastic
YEP LUCK AGAIN
Pure teamwork from our boys, i absolutely lost my mind watching this at the time and it's still a thrill
thanks for this kevin-its brilliant to see the whole thing from the beginning and the reaction afterwards. quality clip
Our beautiful boys. Watching this in 2021.
8:11 Ladies and gentlemen, here is the perfect change of a baton at a relay! And the next one too.
Just Listened to this rerun on BBC five live - Brilliant - Tears to my eyes
Amazing win for the UK this. 👍🏻
They got lucky
I remember this so well - one of those iconic moments in sport ill never forget.
DELUSION
@@misterbreezeoftharedpillma1710 - you must be an American 🤣
@@andytromp8794 , no I'm a fan of track and field😉
Wow...so stunning !! The baton pass is so smooth
I am leaning forward as they were leaning to the finish, that's how good this race was!!!!
This is one of the biggest SHOCK golds Britain have won in the Olympics I think. USA we're big favourites and we pipped them. Loved it!
LUCKY
@@misterbreezeoftharedpillma1710 aim of the game is to get baton round safely as well as fast. USA didn't get it right but GB did so GB deserved to win
@@kevinprior3549 & they still was LUCKY cause it never happened again
@@misterbreezeoftharedpillma1710 we still won lucky or not
@@kevinprior3549 AND YOUR STILL THE ONLY TALKING ABOUT IT CAUSE LUCKY PEOPLE DONT GET REMEMBERED
That was just the smoothest relay GB ever ran. Crisp hand offs
I remember watching this with my mum live, we were both jumping and screming while it was going on
I'm British and I remember watching this and cheering like a mad man. I have tickets to the London 2012 4x100m relay final... I hope to see something spectacular.
I believe you saw a repeat. What a treat.
Had to remind myself after the 2017 boys did the business
08:21 - That has to be the best baton handover I have ever seen.
On my goodness nearly 20 years ago - what wonderful memories our UK must have. Well done lads
Sweaty palms every time I watch this haha, Devonish to MLF was just electrifying
The whole American team disliked this........
Still remember watching this live, couldn’t believe we were even in a shot with a medal let alone the Gold, was jumping all over the living room! 🥇
LUCKY
Came here after watching the new Olympic documentary on BBC and listening to Darren Campbell talk about dropping the baton in Atlanta. Can't wait to get to this part!
I am overwhelmed.i just love the British team in this race.very very good.!!
Best commentary EVER
This was the last time a nation other than Jamaica won Olympic gold for this event and it was my nation:)
dcvbhtrdf and now we've done it again. Funny world. All be it was the world championships.
That's only 2 Olympics; Delusions of Grandeur?
dcvbhtrdf we did it again in 2017! :-)
Yes but jamaica is finiahed. USA is back. Jamaica made hiatory wirh Bolt but that is what Jamaica ia now. HISTORY when it comes to the 4X1 for men and women. Amd mens 100. Shelly or elaine may take the womens 100
Great Britain used to get like 8 medals at the Olympics, now it's over 100
This guy uploads faster than World Athletics.
UK's determination and clean baton passes... just mouthwatering
Talk about inspiration, love this video!
Back when Bolt is still struggling in high school and watching this on screen, idolised how great Maurice Greene was.
bolt was part of the 2004 olympics mate🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣No. He idolised how great Justin Gatlin was in 2004.
This race reminds me of 2012 between Jamaica n united states 4x100 this race send my nerves up
20 years ago, amazing.
Goosebumps
Woooeee - Britain Won the gold so proud!! 🥇😀
Great to see this again. I remember screaming at the TV for Lewis Francis to hold on at the end. Michael Johnson and Colin Jackson had been questioning some of the GB sprinters dedication/ability on BBC coverage of these Olympics. The GB quartet were pretty upset about it...better than the race was the look on Johnson's face in the studio afterwards. The baton changing in this race showed which team had been training...
Individually the GB sprinters had an poor Olympics MLF and Gardener didn't make the cut for 100m final and Campbell and Devonish like wise for the 200m final so Colin Jackson and Michael Johnson as well as Crammy and Stuart Storey had plenty of reason to criticise them. But that race is shows the beauty of the sprint relay anything can happen who would have expected that American team of Crawford gold in the 200m, Gatlin gold in the 100 and bronze in the 200m and Greene bronze in the 100m to have been beaten. It was third and forth legs that did it for GB the change between Gaitlin and Coby Miller was awful Miller is almost at a standstill and the final change Aliu and Greene and looking for the baton and Devonish and MLF's change was faultless as Lewis Francis is not looking around to see where the baton is and that gave GB the lead but Greene was closing fast it was nail bitingly close.
It's the torso that matters. I remember being 13 or so watching this, not knowing the rules and I didn't understand why Greene lost 'cause his foot went over the line first.
Thanks - its the first video I have ever posted and you are the first comment I have received - appreciate that.
In the weeks before Athens Olympic Games, there was a lot of speculation that the traffic will be terrible, nobody could move etc. So we chose to go on vacation with my family, even though we could have tickets to any event due to my job.
As days were by, we realized that the situation was pretty normal. Thus we came back and attended 4 events during the last 3 days, including the last day of Athletics.
It is a day none of us will forget.
“They daren’t catch me! They almost did, but they didn’t, and it’s gold for Great Britain”
Australia felt the same way when we beat America at 2000 Olympics 4x100m swimming final. America had won every previous Olympic 4x100m final.
Very proud day for Australia🇦🇺
Great upload! Cheers for putting it up.
Amazing moment but every time I watch this I think Greene has got him
i watched this at a swimming meet, we stopped to watch this race. had loads of ppl watching the 2 big screens. had the little one with me and 2 mates. amazing!!
My favourite race ever..was going absolutely mental!!
Thanks for posting Kevin great video
That was so damn close
still one of my favourite sporting moments ever.
Fabulous memories, tear in my eye the boys done Good
Maurice Greene’s speed was lightning.
This is almost as good as Akabusi DESTROYiNG the USA 4x400 team - Tokyo World Championships, 1991.
Almost
@@Mardyfella nothing will top it, really
the funniest race i have ever witnessed
It is because the yanks should have absolutely romped home lol,, that quartet was frigging ridiculous on paper, and because of one balls up with the baton they lost by the smallest margin.
Thanks for the vid, great effort!
This is literally poetry in motion.
What acceleration by Maurice green. Sometimes us Americans can be to arrogant and think we’ve won already. Great race
this gives me goosebumps...good clip!
Brilliant, remember watching this :)
Maurice Green was so awesome in this race.
will never forget this race
Maurice Greene was closing rapidly- I can't believe Lewis-Francis managed to hold him off..........
Love it...Great commentary
i don,t know if its about being British or just that they on paper should,nt have won,but who can watch this without feeling huge pride and not feel there eyes getting wet......good on you lads,never ever underestimate a hungry under dog
LUCKY DOGS
Great job by this GB foursome; although no one could have known it at the time, this turned out to be the last Olympics at witch the once dominant USA's mens 4x100 relay would receive a medal of any color. 4 consecutive Olympics and counting - it may very well be a good 20 years+ before the USA men win Olympic gold in this event given the rise of other nations at this particular discipline.