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RIO DE JANEIRO -- It shouldnt be that hard. The Americans make it look that way.The latest U.S. debacle in the Olympic relays reached its end point Saturday, when track officials rejected the protest from the American team and upheld their disqualification from the 4x100-meter mens relay race from the night before. The United States crossed the line third, but Canada keeps the bronze medal.At issue: The baton exchange between Mike Rodgers and Justin Gatlin between the first and second legs.According to rule 170.7 of the track and field handbook, its illegal for the baton to touch the second runners hand before it passes the yellow line that marks the start of the zone. Overhead shots of the exchange show Gatlin doing just that.The U.S. men now are medal-less in the last three Olympics in a race that was virtually made for the country with the deepest collection of sprint talent, even with Usain Bolt running against them. Tyson Gay and Darvis Doc Patton fumbled the baton in 2008. In 2012, the U.S. held on for silver, only to get that one stripped because of Gays subsequent doping positive.In all, this equals 10 finishes outside the medals since 1995 in either world championships or the Olympics.I couldnt even shed a tear I was so shocked, said Gay, who has been around for many of the most recent failures. I couldnt even cry. Damn, bad luck again. Its weird. I dont get it.It gets shoved in their face, time and time again. In a feature previewing the race, NBC had four of the U.S. sprinters look at some of the nightmares that have preceded them.Unfortunately, weve come to be defined by failure, said the coach, Dennis Mitchell.Mitchells naming to his post raised some eyebrows, not only because hes been part of the problems of the recent past, but because he has a doping history, too.Carl Lewis, who won two Olympic relay golds, has been a longtime critic of the way USA Track and Field does relays. Asked about the issue in March, he laid out the problems, saying the U.S. relay game is fraught with infighting among agents, volunteers and administration.USATF needs to stop the joking, stop the crap, Lewis said. What they need to do is get a retired college coach whos going to tell the agent to kiss off, whos going to tell the athletes to get in line and who knows how to put together a relay.Some say the pressure of holding off Bolt, year in and year out, takes its toll and takes people out of their comfort zone.True, but there was one little problem with that Friday.Take Bolt out of it, and we still wouldve been beaten by Japan, said Mike Tucci, a high school coach in Delaware, who has produced champion after champion, often by not even using his fastest runners.Not a single man on Japans second-place team made an individual sprint final at the Olympics. Japan focused on winning a medal in the relays, perfected the handoff and took it to the line. Legally.Not that all has gone wrong for the United States, either in the relays or the track meet itself. Even without the mens relay, the United States entered the weekend with 27 medals, on pace to surpass the 29 it took home from London four years ago.The womens team won the 4x100, but it overcame a lot along the way.First, there was a dropped baton in preliminaries that came because a Brazilian runner bumped Allyson Felix in the passing zone. That led to a protest, then a bizarre rerun of the heat, alone on the track.The U.S. made the final, and Tianna Bartoletta, Felix, English Gardner and Tori Bowie blew away Jamaica for gold. They recorded the second-fastest time in history (41.01 seconds) despite a less-than-perfect exchange between Gardner and Bowie, who had to reach back twice to get the baton.It helps being so much faster, and USATF was touting the success story with this fun anecdote: Shortly before the warm-up, Gardner opened her bag to discover there was only one shoe in there. As luck had it, Felix had an extra pair -- although a half-size bigger -- and loaned it to Gardner.Thats a great story, but only because they won.For the men, let the second-guessing begin.Some of my kids are coming up to me mad, saying `Why do we keep losing? said Tucci, the high school coach. When it happens once, its a mental thing or a goofy situation. When its twice, you cringe a little bit. When it happens three or four times, you start thinking its systematic.Swell Flaske Salg . LOUIS -- Alexander Steen scored a power-play goal with 59. Swell Norge . 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Radwanska, making her debut in the Seoul tournament, hit eight aces in a match that lasted 1 hour, 4 minutes at Olympic Park tennis stadium. "It was definitely a very good match -- I was playing really good tennis," Radwanska said.AKRON, Ohio -- Jason Day wanted to expand his lead Saturday in the Bridgestone Invitational.He was happy just to keep a share of it.Spraying tee shots all over Firestone, Day spent most of the afternoon scrambling for par until he made a 35-foot birdie putt on the 15th hole that settled him down in a hard-earned round of 1-under 69 to share the lead with Scott Piercy.I felt like Mr. Havercamp out of Caddyshack trying to find his golf ball and not knowing where the golf hole goes, Day said.But he could find the bottom of the cup, including three par putts of at least 8 feet.Piercy, coming off a runner-up finish in the U.S. Open two weeks ago at Oakmont, quickly tied Day for the lead with an eagle on the par-5 second hole and was flawless until the final hole. He had a 1-shot lead until pulling his tee shot into the left rough, running a low shot through the green and into a back bunker, and having to scramble just to escape with a bogey and a 67.They were at 5-under 205, the highest 54-hole score at this World Golf Championship since 2007.Only nine players remained under par, and given the firm conditions of Firestone, Day believes all of them have a chance.David Lingmerth of Sweden had a 69 and was 1 shot behind. The big move Saturday belonged to U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson, who hits it a long way and has a short memory.After warming up on the range, Johnson said he was ready for a great round of golf, adding that Im due. The smile suggested he did recall that he played decently at Oakmont two weeks ago.Johnson was 5 under through 11 holes and closing in on the lead when he played final seven holes in 1 over for a 66. Still, that was enough to get him to 2-under 208, 3 shots behind, along with Charl Schwartzel (67) and William McGirt (70).Justin Thomas and Emiliano Grillo, buddies from their junior golf days, were another shot back. Thomas was in much better position until his wedge shot found the water on the par-5 16th, and his fifth shot after a penalty drop nearly went in for a par. Thomas then missed a 4-foot putt for double-bogey.The 16th also got the best of Joordan Spieth in a big way.ddddddddddddSpieth was starting to make putts when he debated whether to hit 3-wood on the 654-yard 16th hole, thinking he could keep it away from the water and try to make his birdie from the rough. He played it smartly instead by laying up, only it didnt quite work out that way.His third shot came up just short and into the water. His next shot went over the green and he couldnt get up and down, making triple-bogey.Spieth said his caddie talked him out of the 3-wood, and he agreed.The big number only comes into play with a 3-wood, he said. It really was the right decision. Its just funny how we talked about it like that.Spieth had another 71 and was 5 shots behind.Piercy had no such issues. He holed a bunker shot on the second hole for eagle and didnt have any stress in his round except for the 35-foot par putt he holed from the back fringe on the 14th hole. The final hole cost him the lead, but he is driving it well enough to think he has a strong chance to pick up his fourth career victory.I know I can do it, Piercy said. Its just doing it on a consistent basis like a Jordan or a Jason and those guys.Day opened with a 20-foot birdie putt. He added a short birdie on the sixth hole. A three-putt bogey on the seventh was a nuisance.What concerned him was a tee shot on the eighth that was meant to be a sweeping draw and turned into a shot deep into the trees for a bogey. And it didnt get much better from there. He was in trouble off the tee on the next two holes and salvaged pars. He hit only three fairways in the round.The short game saved me, but mentally I was just trying to grind and grind and grind, Day said.Because I thought if I can just somehow get something in and give myself an opportunity for tomorrow ... its very easy, hitting the positions I hit it today, to sit there and go, Well, its just not my day or not my week and kind of switch off a little bit. But didnt want to allow myself to switch off mentally. ' ' '