Possible Clues:

• Uses the baton to receive and pass on heat
• Passing on event?
• Ace rarely placed in team event
• Career lay in ruins: having started, one couldn't finish it
• Lay the people out again on the track
• One gets some stick running this with colleagues
• Broadcast event
• Foot speed contest passing batons
• The last runners try to be first in it
• Player losing head prepared with care for contest