537 The Power of the Luckiest Draw (1/2)

Halyna threw the relay baton into the sky.

Surprised shouts arose in the crowd.

Dai Li couldn't control his anger and nearly shouted out.

Frazer smirk, very pleased.

Halyna was the one to blame.

During the changeover process, there was no mistake at all. It was perfect until Halyna held the relay baton in her hand.

It went so well, of course, because Dai Li who had the ”continuous iron chain” title. He never worried about the changeover.

When Halyna took the relay baton, she didn't hold it tight and let it fly out of her hand, a huge and terrible mistake.

Before the contest, Halyna had never been trained to take the relay baton, only trained to hand over it. This was one of the reasons for her terrible mistake, but another was that she was under a lot of pressure. The third runner is so critical that Halyna, a young athlete, was shouldering too much of the burden. That was the fundamental reason for her fault.

The U.S. team has lost!

Almost everyone who was there, Dai Li included, thought this and couldn't bear to watch.

The relay baton flew away towards the front of the race.

The two athletes from Jamaica were making their second changeover in that direction.

Jamaica was in the lane beside the U.S. team, and they were in their passing zone. The U.S. team had accumulated a lead in the first round, which meant that when Halyna threw the relay baton away, the Jamaican team was still passing the baton.

At that moment, the two Jamaicans noticed her fault and the relay baton flying towards them.

When she lost the relay baton, Bob realized that she had made an unforgivable mistake that could destroy the U.S. team's chance to win.

She tried to do something instinctively, bending forward and reaching her hand to grab the relay baton. She did it! Of course, she almost dropped it but it didn't fly off the track thanks to her flexibility.

Halyna, moving like an acrobat, pulled the U.S. team back from defeat.

Thanks to her young body, she could move quickly enough to grab the relay baton again. Had she been an older athlete at that moment, they would have lost the game already.

”Woo!” Dai Li breathed a sigh of relief.

Thank god! Not losing the relay baton is a lucky turn of events. Dai Li comforted himself with this thought.

Dai Li knew that, although Halyna didn't lose it, at least 0.3s were wasted because of the loss of momentum. This was considerable in a race like the 4×100m.

Halyna was just a common athlete who had made a mistake and lost some time, so Dai Li had expected them to lose to the Jamaicans.

However, at that moment, something unbelievable happened: The Jamaican athletes slowed down. They almost stopped, to be exact.

The Jamaican team stopped at the edge of the passing zone.

What was more shocking was that the relay baton hadn't been passed.

Their changeover failed! Dai Li realized at once.

Next to Dai Li, Fraser's expression froze instantly.

The passing zone in the 4×100m was only 20m. Actually, before taking over the relay baton, one must start running. Therefore, when they received the baton, they were going as fast as they could. That meant that it took no more than two seconds for top athletes to run out of the passing zone. In other words, the changeover must be finished within two seconds.

You only got one chance for a changeover in two seconds. If the changeover is completed within two seconds, the athletes have to slow down, or even stop running, in order to get the baton in the passing zone. Only then could they start running again without breaking the rules and getting an invalid result.

Obviously, the Jamaican team made such a mistake.

They had to stop to pass the relay baton and speed up again. It was a disaster in a race like this. When such things happened they could just give up. They had lost seconds.

As expected, the third runner of the Jamaican team stopped first, took the relay baton and started running again. Eventually, the Jamaican runner was behind 7 runners. Compared to the U.S. athlete, she was behind by two seconds.

What on the earth happened just now? Why did they make such a horrible fault? Dai Li was confused. Halyna had all his attention at that moment, so he didn't notice how they made that mistake.

Most other people watching had been paying attention to Halyna too, so most people didn't realize that the Jamaican runners failed at the changeover until the Jamaican runner stopped on the verge of the passing zone.

The female sprinter tried her best to catch up, but she could do little now, although she was much faster than the other athletes. Even though two of the fastest runners fastest runners in the world were on the Jamaican team, making up for two seconds was impossible.

Meanwhile, the third runner, Halyna, was trying her best to run hard.

Halyna knew that she had made an unforgivable mistake. Although she hadn't lost the relay baton, she had still wasted some time. She wanted to make up for what she had lost.

Actually, her mentality changed after her mistake. Before, she had been worried about how she would negatively affect the team. After the mistake, the pressure was off. It was like a wealthy man who lived in fear of losing everything had just been robbed. Now that he had nothing, he was fearless.

After unloading her burden, she was fearless and courageous.

Halyna was brave and her shame led her to a nearly flawless performance. Compared with the other third runners, she did much better than she was expected to