In a surprising flip of occasions, regardless of operating a season’s easiest 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 5th within the 3rd of 3 semi-final heats, during which most effective the 2 quickest finishers complicated robotically, plus the 2 quickest non-automatic qualifiers, for a complete of 8 males within the last; his total placement used to be twelfth. The entire most sensible runners this yr, together with double global champion Noah Lyles, 2023 silver medallist Letsile Tebogo, Tokyo silver medallist and 2022 global champion Fred Kerley and the newcomer, Kishane Thompson of Jamaica (who holds the quickest time this yr), complicated robotically, with protecting Olympic champion Marcell Lamont Jacobs of Italy and Crew USA’s Kenny Bednarek taking the 2 quickest non-automatic qualifying positions.
Andre De Grasse 🇨🇦 on now not achieving 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 last contending for some other medal. I believed I had an opportunity if I were given into the general…the staying power and stamina had been there.” percent.twitter.com/l4e0PvxjMB
— Canadian Operating (@CanadianRunning) August 4, 2024
“It without a doubt used to be a tricky one,” De Grasse stated after the race. “I had a season’s easiest, however I wished an additional 10th [of a second] to make that last… I will be able to’t live on it an excessive amount of, I nonetheless have the 200m the next day night time. I’ve to get able for that, and I’ll most probably dissect the 100m after the Video games… I’m the protecting champion [in the 200m], so I’ve were given to head in the market and ensure I’m contending for some other name, or get at the podium, so I will be able to’t let this impact me, that I didn’t make the 100 metres. I’ve were given to head in the market, transparent my thoughts, reset, and simply move from there.
“Some folks advised me I had an excellent get started, however I suppose it simply wasn’t sufficient… However I believe I’ve some other Olympics in me nonetheless. I believe lovely excellent, I’m wholesome, so I’ll simply move from there.
“It hasn’t in reality sunk in but, to be truthful–yeah, a tricky one, now not so that you can be in that last, contending for some other medal.”
De Grasse had long gone into the Video games hoping to wreck the Canadian file of 9.84, set in 1996 via Donovan Bailey and later equalled via Bruny Surin.
De Grasse used to be the one closing Canadian within the 100m, with Aaron Brown’s previous disqualification for a false get started within the heats, and Duan Asemota now not advancing from the heats.
The boys’s 100m last is going at 3:10 ET Sunday. De Grasse will line up for the lads’s 200m semi-final is going Monday, Aug. 5 at 1:55 p.m. ET.
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