Canadian track and field team 'in a good place' after six medals at Tokyo 2020. But the feeling of fourth with the podium so near and yet so far is always hard to bear
Alongside such a hue, there is a tendency to cry, the podium being so near and yet so far. And at some Olympics, when medals have been scarce, Team Canada leadership had little recourse but to slap rose-coloured glasses over those tear-filled eyes and fend off a legion of critics by counting a collection of fourths through eighths as signs of potential and progress.
He was a Summer Olympian at Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000. Canada’s track and field team produced a total of six medals from those four Games, and he was in on one of them, the 4x100m relay gold from Atlanta. Madeline Price of Team Canada takes the handoff from teammate Sage Watson in the Women’s 4 x 400m Relay heats on day thirteen of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on August 05, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.They ran 3:21.84, a mark that left them a scant .60 seconds away from a podium position, which was their goal, and .63 seconds from the Canadian record of 3:21.21, which would have been a lovely adjunct.
Their time would have fetched bronze in Rio, London, Beijing, Athens, Sydney, Barcelona, L.A. and Moscow; silver in Montreal and gold in Sydney and Munich. That woman might still be out there; the seven-athlete pool was deep enough that three of them in Tokyo didn’t get a sniff; Natassha McDonald, Noelle Montcalm and Lauren Gale.Article content
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