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Bullet points of Team USA wins Olympic gold in men's and women's 4x400 relay
- Team USA won Olympic gold in the men's and women's 4x400 relay, with the men setting an Olympic-record time and the women coming close to the world record.
- Rai Benjamin held off Letsile Tebogo of Botswana to give the United States a gold medal and an Olympic-record time in the men's 4x400-meter relay.
- The U.S. quartet of Christopher Bailey, Vernon Norwood, Bryce Deadmon, and Benjamin completed the four laps in 2 minutes, 54.43 seconds, nearly a second faster than the American 4x400 team ran at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
- The women's 4x400 relay team, featuring Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Gabby Thomas, won gold with a 4.23-second runaway and finished in 3 minutes, 15.27 seconds, only .1 short of the world record.
- The United States clinched a total of 14 gold medals and 34 overall medals at the Paris Olympics.
- Rai Benjamin added an Olympic title to his 400-meter hurdles gold medal, won the night before, by preventing Letsile Tebogo from giving Botswana another triumph over the Americans.
- The U.S. women's 4x400 relay team, led by Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Gabby Thomas, cruised to a gold Olympic medal, wrapping up the Olympic action at the Stade de France.