Consider the node, where the two anchor legs join with the main line.

Torrence was supposed to run the anchor leg but pulled out.

Her anchor leg here was equivalent to a 4:31.8 mile.

She ran the anchor leg on several national championship relays.

After 75 meters of his 200-meter anchor leg, Biondi took the lead.

Flanagan ran away from the others with a 4:34.1 anchor leg and won by 80 meters.

She made up a 50-yard deficit on the anchor leg of the 4x800, then stretched the lead to 40 yards at the finish.

His 1:48.7 anchor leg pulled Bordentown from fifth place to first.

"I'd be absolutely crushed," Mitchell said of losing the opportunity to run the anchor leg.

An hour later, on the anchor leg of the 800-meter relay, she turned a 3-meter deficit into a 7-meter victory.