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'A total embarrassment': Carl Lewis slams U.S. track leadership after 4x100 relay failure

Trayvon Bromell called it “BS.”

Carl Lewis called it “a total embarrassment.”

Whatever you want to call it, the U.S. still can’t find four men who can pass the baton to one another while running as fast as they can.

For the fourth straight Olympics, U.S. men failed to win a medal in an event they once owned. The favored Americans finished sixth in their 4x100-meter relay heat Thursday and failed to qualify for the final largely because Fred Kerley and Ronnie Baker botched the baton pass between the relay's second and third leg.

The U.