With Bolt anchoring the relay, the sprinting
superpower won four of the six golds in Glasgow four years ago
and had been expected to dominate again despite the multiple
world and Olympic champion hanging up his spikes.
"Did I retire too soon? Hmmm," Bolt tweeted after the men's team
anchored by his former training partner Yohan Blake finished
third behind England and South Africa.
"Watching the relay just now made me ask myself a few
questions."
The women's team, led home by Olympic 100 and 200 champion
Elaine Thompson also came up short in the women's 4x100, taking
silver close behind England.
Former world champion Blake, who won bronze as hot favorite in
the individual 100, said he had been left with too much to do in
the final leg by an inexperienced team - none of whom were in
the line-up four years ago.
"We have some great young guys but they haven't been exposed as
yet, we just hope they can get it fast," he said.
"To be honest, I'm not going to lie, it's not that they are
getting better, it's that we are not performing. Because if we
were performing with the times that we are running, they
couldn't stay with us."
Bolt joked on his arrival on the Gold Coast as a spectator
earlier this week that he would be giving Blake a good ribbing
for missing out on the 100 gold.
"He's going to trouble me a lot because he expected me to get
the gold in the 100," Blake laughed.
"What happened was I slipped at the start and I couldn't
recover. I was in record breaking shape and I'm still in that
but I'm going to hide from him when I go home."
(Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, editing by Sudipto Ganguly)
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