Trouble in paradise for the Jamaican men’s relay team! With the World Relays 2025 underway, the Jamaican team came in with high expectations. And why not? After all, they came in with a packed squad for the competition. Unfortunately, despite having some of the biggest stars in their ranks, the Jamaican men’s relay team had one of the most heartbreaking moments. They dropped the baton, eliminating themselves in the process! And track legend Usain Bolt could not be more sad.
Having won some of the hardest races in his life, pressure is a normalcy for Usain Bolt. Thus, as the 9.58s world record holder sat down to watch Team Jamaica carry on his legacy, Bolt was shell-shocked. Looking at the likes of Kishane Thompson and co. fumble with the baton, Bolt could not help but heave a sigh of relief. Taking to his X account, Usain Bolt wrote, “Jah Jah.” While this phrase can have many interpretations, it is usually a call to God or a higher power in times of despair.
And surely, things cannot get more despair-like for Bolt and other Jamaican legends. The Jamaican fans had high hopes for the team. Well, why not? The team consisted of names like Kishane Thompson, Yohan Blake, Rohan Watson, and Julian Forte. Sadly enough, despite having these big guns in their artillery, Jamaica failed to fire. In one of the shocking incidents, the team botched up the baton handoff. While handing it over, it slipped and fell, marking the abrupt end for the Jamaican adventure in the 2025 World Relays.
Jah Jah
— Usain St. Leo Bolt (@usainbolt) May 10, 2025
However, not everything is lost for the team yet. Kishane Thompson and co. will have a chance to redeem themselves tomorrow. Running for pride, the Jamaicans will have the opportunity to qualify for the World Athletics Championships 2025. Meanwhile, the Jamaican women too, did not have the greatest of outings. In another shocker, the Jamaican women finished second in the heat with a score of 42.51s. Dropping a national record of 42.19s, Spain took the victory in a surprising twist. But Jamaica was not the only team to have a baton botch. Their fiercest rivals, Team USA too, had kind of a deja vu to deal with.
Same script on a different stage as US relay team fumbles again amid world relays heartbreak
It was deja vu all over again, only the stage had changed. The venue was Guangzhou this time, not Tokyo or Paris, but the script remained painfully identical. Team USA’s relay dreams unraveled once more in the heats of the 4x100m mixed relay at the 2025 World Relays. And in a sequence that has haunted American track and field for decades, the baton—yet again—hit the ground.
The US squad, entering the meet as the favorite, had all the right pieces, be it speed, talent, or experience. But none of that mattered when the moment of truth arrived. A female athlete came flying in, baton in hand, only for the exchange to collapse into chaos. Her male teammate, rushing to accelerate, misjudged the handoff. In a flash of tension and mistiming, the baton slipped, bouncing on the track as their shot at gold vanished.
What was once a symbol of American sprinting supremacy has become its Achilles’ heel. From the Olympic debacles in Tokyo and Paris to this fresh World Relays misfire, the recurring theme is no longer a surprise. It’s like an expectation. The heartbreak isn’t just in the drop. Rather, it’s in how often it keeps happening.
And as the U.S. campaign falters again, one question remains. How does a sprinting superpower keep getting the simplest part so devastatingly wrong?
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