PARIS—The United States blazed to the gold medal in the Olympic women’s 4x400-meter relay on Saturday, clocking the second quickest time in history and stretching the country’s remarkable victory streak in the event to eight in a row.
Fielding a star-studded foursome featuring Olympic champions Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Gabby Thomas, the Americans clocked three minutes 15.27 seconds, narrowly missing the world record set by the former Soviet Union in 1988.
