More U.S. Olympic disasters

And the heavily favored women's water polo team lost, giving up 4 goals in the first 4 minutes to the Netherlands.

clipped from news.yahoo.com Butterfingers drop US men, women out of 400 relays BEIJING - Tyson Gay reached back to grab the baton "and there was nothing." He's not the only American track favorite who will leave Beijing empty-handed. The American men's and women's 400-meter relay teams both misconnected on the final handoffs in their preliminaries Thursday, a pair of stunning setbacks that made it that much easier for the Jamaicans to say the Bird's Nest is really their house.