100m hurdles
After improving her own Puerto Rican record to 12.32 to move to equal seventh on the world 100m hurdles all-time list in Eugene in April, Camacho-Quinn will be hoping to make more history for her nation in Tokyo. There she will aim to become the first Puerto Rican woman to win an Olympic medal in athletics and given her recent form, she will surely be going for gold.
The 24-year-old hit a hurdle and missed out on the final when making her Olympic debut in 2016 but now working with coaches Gary Evans and John Coghlan – who travelled from Ireland to guide her – the US-based athlete has moved on from that heartbreak. “Yeah it’s an Olympic year, but my whole mindset is like ‘okay, let’s go out there, let’s do this’, instead of dwelling on what happened in the past,”
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You ve got to make the best of it, De Grasse said during his drive home from practice and treatment on Thursday. Whatever they throw at us . . . things are going to be out of our control, but I m going to try to manage it, and do the best that I can. Of course, it might not be the greatest experience in terms of being able to see the city of Tokyo, but I m just there to hopefully win medals, make the best of that, and then go back home.
One medal in particular, however, could be out of reach. Canada s 4x100 relay team raced to bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics, giving De Grasse his third medal of those Games. But because Canada s relay runners have been spread across Canada, the U.S. and the Caribbean over the past year, all with different COVID-19 travel restrictions, the team hasn t qualified for Tokyo.
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Andre de Grasse of Canada, silver medalist for the men s 200 meters, poses during the medal ceremony at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Nariman El-Mofty April 29, 2021 - 1:24 PM
After a crazy few months of being locked out of weight rooms, and scouring the neighbourhood for grass fields to train on, Andre De Grasse says he can handle any COVID-19 restrictions the Tokyo Olympics throw at him.
A day after Tokyo organizers announced daily COVID-19 testing and other tight restrictions for athletes, the three-time Olympic medallist said the only choice is to roll with it.