Canada’s maximum adorned male Olympian, Andre De Grasse, has been selected via the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) to hold the flag for Workforce Canada on the Paris 2024 opening ceremonies on July 26. On Wednesday, the COC introduced that De Grasse will lift the flag along girls’s weightlifter Maude Charron. Each are protecting Olympic champions of their respective occasions.
Two reigning Olympic champions will lift the Canadian flag into the Opening Rite for Paris 2024! https://t.co/w0R2M9Yhzp
— Workforce Canada (@TeamCanada) July 24, 2024
De Grasse hasn’t ever carried the Canadian flag at a gap or last rite, and Paris marks the 3rd time he’s going to constitute Canada on the Olympic Video games. He’s going to once more be a medal contender within the males’s 100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay.
The Markham, Ont., local has received six medals on the closing two Olympic Video games (one gold, two silver, and 3 bronze). He’s the one sprinter on the earth to win a person medal within the males’s 100m on the closing two Olympic Video games. His 200m gold medal end at Tokyo 2020 used to be the primary Canadian Olympic gold at the monitor in 25 years and the primary within the 200m in 93 years.
The 29-year-old has been a constant podium finisher at primary championships, successful a medal in each Olympic and International Championship ultimate he competed in from 2015 till the 2023 International Championships. He completed 6th within the males’s 200m international championship ultimate in Budapest.
De Grasse has returned to best shape this season, successful his first nationwide 100m identify since 2017 on the 2024 Canadian Olympic Trials in Montreal in overdue June. Two weeks later, he ran his quickest 200m time of the yr on the Gyulai István Memorial Continental Excursion meet in Hungary, clocking his first sub-20-second time because the Diamond League ultimate in September 2023.
He’s going to start his Paris 2024 marketing campaign within the males’s 100m heats on Saturday, Aug. 3, with the lads’s 200m and 4x100m occasions coming later within the week.