1.   Nanceen Perry, a member of the U.S. sprint relay team that won the bronze medal, thought so.

2.   Only Casey FitzRandolph, who had won a fistful of Cup medals, had a free pass onto the sprint team.

3.   The same was true for the dominance that U.S. sprint relay teams have enjoyed since the beginning of the Modern Olympics.

4.   Whether or not it has been by choice, they are striving to become the best high school sprint team ever.

5.   Disaster struck the U.S. sprint relay team again Saturday when the runners botched the first handoff and were disqualified in their first-round heat at the World Championships.

6.   Disaster struck the U.S. sprint relay team again Saturday when the runners botched the first handoff in their opening heat at the World Championships.

7.   Henderson was a member of the Australian sprint relay team at the Atlanta Olympics.

8.   Last week, Brown led his high school sprint relay team to gold at the international Penn Relays in Philadelphia.

9.   There had also been speculation that, if reinstated, Johnson might run on the Canadian sprint relay team at the World Championships, which open Saturday in Seville.

10.   And when you look at the Canadian sprint team, it was really a Jamaican team.