Britain Beats USA in 4x100m Relay Olympic Final

When

August, 2004

Where

Athens, Greece

What

After a poor change by the Americans between Justin Gatlin and Coby Miller, Britain were ahead going into the final straight. Lewis-Francis hangs on from a fast-finaishing Maurice Greene to beat the Americans by 1/100 of a second. It was the first British Olympic relay gold since 1912.