BREAKING: Damian Warner, who won gold in the decathlon, will be Canada's flag bearer for the closing ceremony at Tokyo2020.
TOKYO - Olympic decathlon champion Damian Warner has been named Canada's flag-bearer for the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics.
Warner won Canada's first ever decathlon gold medal with a stellar performance across the event's 10 disciplines, finishing with a score of 9,018 points.He shattered the Olympic record of 8,893 points, as well as the Canadian record of 8,895 points he previously set in May of this year in G?tzis, Austria.
Warner is also the first Canadian decathlete to win multiple Olympic medals, having won bronze at Rio 2016. The only other Canadian to win an Olympic medal in the decathlon is Dave Steen, who captured bronze at Seoul 1988., and avoid posting profanity, personal attacks or harassment. Should you violate our submissions guidelines, we reserve the right to remove your comments and block your account. Sportsnet reserves the right to close a story’s comment section at any time.
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