{"id":1417,"date":"2009-08-22T19:17:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T23:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2009-08-27T23:51:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T03:51:25","slug":"berlin-2009-mens-4x100m-relay-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=1417","title":{"rendered":"Berlin 2009: Men&#8217;s 4x100m Relay Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Trinidad and Tobago News Blog<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/\">www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/em><big><b>Jamaica Wins Gold, Trinidad &#038; Tobago Sliver<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p>GOLD: Steve Mullings, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 37.32 <\/p>\n<p>SILVER: Darrel Brown, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callander and Richard Thompson (Trinidad and Tobago) 37.62<\/p>\n<p>BRONZE: Simeon Williamson, Tyrone Edgar, Marlon Devonish and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (Britain) 38.02<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<big><b><a href=\"http:\/\/berlin.iaaf.org\/news\/kind=108\/newsid=53921.html\">Event Report &#8211; Men&#8217;s 4x100m Relay &#8211; Final<\/a><\/b><\/big><br \/>\nIt was only when the baton was handed from second-leg runner Michael Frater to Usain Bolt that Jamaica edged ahead. A smooth changeover to Asafa Powell gave them a lead that only grew bigger and bigger on the home straight as they stopped the clock in 37.31.<\/p>\n<p>Olympic silver medallists Trinidad &#038; Tobago, with a team that featured two 100m finalists, were a few metres behind with a time of 37.62. For Darrel Brown, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callander and Richard Thompson, it was an improvement of 0.38 seconds on the national record they set last year. It is also a performance that even sprint powerhouse USA has only bettered on seven occasions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2009-08\/23\/content_11928591.htm\">Bolt wins third gold as Jamaica bags both 4x100m relays<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Original Trinidad and Tobago News Blog URL:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=1417\">www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=1417<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinidad and Tobago News Blog www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog Jamaica Wins Gold, Trinidad &#038; Tobago Sliver GOLD: Steve Mullings, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 37.32 SILVER: Darrel Brown, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callander and Richard Thompson (Trinidad and Tobago) 37.62 BRONZE: Simeon Williamson, Tyrone Edgar, Marlon Devonish and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (Britain) 38.02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1,5,27],"tags":[165,167,166,168,1021,161],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caribbean","category-general-tt","category-international","category-sports","tag-darrel-brown","tag-emmanuel-callander","tag-marc-burns","tag-richard-thompson","tag-sports","tag-usain-bolt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}