USA set up GB showdown in women’s 4x100m relay after surviving close call

Twanisha Terry and Gabby Thomas make a meal of the second handover during the women’s 4x100m relay. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA

Team GB have made it into the finals of the 4x100m relays in the women’s and the men’s competition. But there were tense moments for the favourites in the women’s race after the USA came perilously close to being disqualified, after a mistake in their second handover.

There was a shock in the men’s competition as Jamaica failed to qualify for the final after a series of botched handovers.