Athletics - Team United States of America

General
The United States of America are looking to continue their Olympic dominance by winning their seventh consecutive gold medal in Tokyo. The US team claimed their first Olympic title in front of a home crowd in 1984 in Los Angeles, and on the four occasions they did not win gold in the event they have always taken home silver. Their nearest rivals for total Olympic medals is Jamaica on five, and only Great Britain have appeared at more editions of the Games with 12 compared to the US team's 11 [due to their boycott of the 1980 Games], a record they share with Jamaica.

The US team have won 14 medals at the world championships, including nine gold, in 17 appearances since the women's 4x400m relay became part of the programme in 1983. No other team have claimed as many total medals, with Jamaica's nine the next best, nor as many gold medals. The US team secured their ninth world title at the most recent edition of the tournament in 2019, convincingly beating Poland into second place by just under three seconds.