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On a team that included three women with multiple Olympic gold medals, it is perhaps no surprise that the fourth member of Jamaica's 4x100m quartet in Rio last year was somewhat overshadowed in 2016.

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The provisional entry lists for the IAAF/BTC World Relays Bahamas 2017 are now available.

As is the case in the 4x200m which opens the IAAF World Relays on Saturday, the spotlight on the women's 4x100m will fall on double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson whose mission it is this weekend to help Jamaica retain...

Few events exemplify recent history in the men's relays better than the 4x200m at the IAAF World relays, which at the first two editions has seen formidable US quartets fall to a litany of errors as Jamaica took the titl...

As with most of the sprint relay events on the IAAF World Relays programme this weekend, the women's 4x200m is expected to come down to another showdown in the ongoing USA-Jamaica rivalry.

At the previous two editions of the IAAF World Relays, the men's 4x400m has been a race to remember as The Bahamas duelled in unforgettable fashion with the US, though eventually had to concede on both occasions thanks t...

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It wouldn't be going out on too thin a limb to say that the women's 4x400m at this weekend's IAAF World Relays will come down to a battle between USA and Jamaica. The two powerhouse nations have finished 1-2 at all but o...

If the brief history of the IAAF World Relays is to be relied upon, then it appears the US, Kenya and Poland will duke it out for the title in the men's 4x800m final on Sunday night.

While their team may be lacking some of the established star power that propelled them to the title in each of the two previous editions of the IAAF World Relays, USA will nonetheless start as the team to beat in the wom...

The provisional entry lists for the IAAF/BTC World Relays Bahamas 2017 are now available.