English Gardner didn’t even need her own shoes to help the U.S. women’s 4x100m relay team win gold.
Gardner revealed to NBC New York what went down before Saturday’s final — what could have been a panicked moment turned out to be an easy fix:
Gardner, who ran the third leg of the race, told “Today’s” Sheinelle Jones that when she looked in her bag just before the final race, she saw only one spike. With just 10 minutes before the race start time, Gardner calmly told a coach she was missing a shoe.