The team had a first-round baton drop at the 2008 Olympics, a first-round illegal handoff at 2009 Worlds, a fall in the final at 2011 Worlds, a retroactive anti-doping medal strip at the 2012 Olympics ...

The U.S. had baton issues while finishing sixth in a preliminary heat in the 2021 Games and didn’t make the final. In 2016 they were plagued by an illegal handoff. In 2008 they dropped the baton ...

Bednarek began to accelerate too early which caused the handoff to be out of the zone. It is almost always the outgoing runner’s fault when the gap doesn’t close for the baton to be exchanged.