B.C.’s Evan Dunfee captures gold at Commonwealth Games
Canada’s Evan Dunfee says he drew on the support of his loved ones to propel him to a Commonwealth Games gold medal.
“To believe in myself today as much as my friends and family back home believed in me, that was the goal for today, to just come in here and have that same belief as everyone else has in me, and back myself,” Dunfee said. “And that’s what I did and I’m thrilled.” Dunfee’s victory comes after a tough season that saw him struggle with a nagging hamstring injury and lack of motivation largely around the elimination of the 50-kilometre event, in which he won bronze at both last summer’s Toky Olympics and the 2019 world championships. Dunfee had lobbied fiercely to keep the event, but it was eventually scrapped from the world and Olympic programs.
“That was amazing, to come out here, be in the stadium, we’ve never experienced anything like this as race walkers,” he said. Thibeault, meanwhile, was dispatched in a the quarter-finals at the Tokyo Olympics, but bounced back to win the world championships in May.
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