The Canadian Olympic relay team is on the podium once again.
And this time, they’ll be on top of it.
Three years after winning silver in the Tokyo 2020 Games, Canada finished in first place with an electric finish from longtime relay anchor Andre De Grasse.
“We’re hoping for some magic, some great results in Paris, and hopefully we can contend for that gold medal,” De Grasse said in an interview with Daily Hive back in July. “After everyone’s done their individual events, we’ll try to put that all together and try to bring back a medal for Canada.”
It’s the third straight medal for Canada in the event, having won silver in Tokyo and Bronze at Rio 2016. Prior to that, they’d won gold in the same event at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
Canada had previously won the gold medal at the 2022 World Championships,
In the relay heats on Thursday, the Canadian women’s team set a new national record but finished seventh in the final.
Canada has previously won five medals in the women’s event.
More to come…
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