Alysha Newman brightened Canada's day with her wonderful bronze-medal performance in the women's pole vault.
Alysha Newman brightened Canada's day with her wonderful bronze-medal performance in the women's pole vault. It was shaping up as a rough day for Canada's track and field athletes. This morning, men's 5,000m medal contender Moh Ahmed was eliminated when he tripped on another runner with about a lap left in his heat. A few hours later, reigning 200m champion Andre De Grasse lost his title when he failed to advance past the semifinals.
medals away from matching the national record for a non-boycotted Summer Games, set three years ago in Tokyo, with four days left. The silver lining to De Grasse's failure to qualify for Thursday's 200m final is it frees him up to go all out in the men's 4x100m heats earlier in the day. Realistically, the relay was always his best hope for a medal in Paris anyway.
The men's 4x100 heats begin at 5:35 a.m. ET. Canada also has a team in the women's 4x100 heats at 5:10 a.m. ET. Also in the morning session, women's shot put medal contender Sarah Mitton competes in her qualifying round at 4:25 a.m. ET. Things went more smoothly for Canada's Marco Arop in the first round of the men's 800m. The world champion placed second in his heat to. Arop's main rivals — Djamel Sedjati of Algeria, Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya, Gabriel Tual of France and Ben Pattison of Great Britain — all won their heats.
Canada's co-flag-bearer for the opening ceremony in Paris remains a contender in her new weight class. She took bronze at the 2022 world championships and, after missing the 2023 worlds with a knee injury, returned to take silver at the Pan Am Games later in the year. The competition starts at 9 a.m. ET.Mitchell and Genest advanced to the women's keirin quarterfinals at 11:18 a.m. ET.
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