In a stunning flip of occasions, regardless of operating a season’s greatest time of 9.98 seconds, two-time Olympic bronze medallist Andre De Grasse didn’t advance out of the semi-finals of the lads’s 100m on Sunday on the Paris Olympics.
De Grasse completed fifth within the third of three semi-final heats, wherein solely the 2 quickest finishers superior mechanically, plus the 2 quickest non-automatic qualifiers, for a complete of eight males within the ultimate; his general placement was twelfth. The entire high runners this yr, together with double world champion Noah Lyles, 2023 silver medallist Letsile Tebogo, Tokyo silver medallist and 2022 world champion Fred Kerley and the newcomer, Kishane Thompson of Jamaica (who holds the quickest time this yr), superior mechanically, with defending Olympic champion Marcell Lamont Jacobs of Italy and Workforce USA’s Kenny Bednarek taking the 2 quickest non-automatic qualifying positions.
Andre De Grasse 🇨🇦 on not reaching the 100m on the Olympics for the primary time in his profession:
“It hasn’t sunk in but, it’s a tricky to not be in that ultimate contending for an additional medal. I assumed I had an opportunity if I obtained into the ultimate…the endurance and stamina had been there.” pic.twitter.com/l4e0PvxjMB
— Canadian Operating (@CanadianRunning) August 4, 2024
“It undoubtedly was a tricky one,” De Grasse stated after the race. “I had a season’s greatest, however I wanted an additional tenth [of a second] to make that ultimate… I can’t dwell on it an excessive amount of, I nonetheless have the 200m tomorrow night time. I’ve to prepare for that, and I’ll most likely dissect the 100m after the Video games… I’m the defending champion [in the 200m], so I’ve obtained to go on the market and ensure I’m contending for an additional title, or get on the rostrum, so I can’t let this have an effect on me, that I didn’t make the 100 metres. I’ve obtained to go on the market, clear my thoughts, reset, and simply go from there.
“Some folks instructed me I had an amazing begin, however I suppose it simply wasn’t sufficient… However I feel I’ve one other Olympics in me nonetheless. I really feel fairly good, I’m wholesome, so I’ll simply go from there.
“It hasn’t actually sunk in but, to be sincere–yeah, a tricky one, not to have the ability to be in that ultimate, contending for an additional medal.”
De Grasse had gone into the Video games hoping to interrupt the Canadian document of 9.84, set in 1996 by Donovan Bailey and later equalled by Bruny Surin.
De Grasse was the one remaining Canadian within the 100m, with Aaron Brown’s earlier disqualification for a false begin within the heats, and Duan Asemota not advancing from the heats.
The lads’s 100m ultimate goes at 3:10 ET Sunday. De Grasse will line up for the lads’s 200m semi-final goes Monday, Aug. 5 at 1:55 p.m. ET.
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