How to Win a Race, No Mystery...

Carl Lewis understands better than an NYT sportswriter blaming a curse, how to fix the 4x100 relay. Namely, put unknown Kenny Bednarek in there over your "name" names rrunning for glory, not preparing for a win...

“This was a football coach taking a team to the Super Bowl and losing 99-0 because they were completely ill-prepared,” Lewis said to USA TODAY. “It’s unacceptable. It’s so disheartening to see this because it’s people’s lives. We’re just playing games with people’s lives. That’s why I’m so upset. It’s totally avoidable. And America is sitting there rooting for the United States and then they have this clown show. I can’t take it anymore. It’s just unacceptable. It is not hard to do the relay.”

More Carl Lewis race talk:

“I’ve never seen Ronnie Baker run a turn in my life,” Lewis said. “Go back and watch the third leg, look at him, he looks like he’s running on ice because he’s never run a turn. He doesn’t run the (individual) 200, so why is he running a turn when he never runs a turn?” The baton pass has been one of Team USA’s biggest struggles in the relay. Unlike other countries, which can spend months or even years perfecting passing, the rapid turnaround between the Olympic trials and the Summer Games makes baton passes less seamless. Baker said there was “not much” practicing as a team before the event.