Brits claim shock relay gold

Great Britain’s men’s 4x100metres relay squad pulled off a sensational gold medal-winning performance in Athens tonight.

Reigning champions America had gone into the final as red hot favourites to hold onto their title.

But Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish and Mark Lewis-Francis swept to glory in stunning fashion.

Lewis-Francis got the baton from Devonish with a metre lead and somehow held off Maurice Greene on the anchor leg.

It was desperately close at the death but Lewis-Francis hit the line millimetres ahead of the American 100metres bronze medallist.