{"id":315342,"date":"2021-08-05T00:08:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T21:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stand-up-and-take-a-bow-andre-de-grasse\/"},"modified":"2021-08-05T00:08:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T21:08:03","slug":"stand-up-and-take-a-bow-andre-de-grasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stand-up-and-take-a-bow-andre-de-grasse\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stand up and take a bow, Andre De Grasse"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Stand up and take a bow, Andre De Grasse<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Image of the Week: Canada’s 200-metre gold medallist, recumbent in glory\n <\/div>\n
\n It was all over in less than 20 seconds. Setting a new record for himself and his country, Andre De Grasse, the fastest man in Canada, won gold on Wednesday in a heart-pounding 200-metre sprint. He did it in 19.62 seconds, precisely\u00a00.06 seconds ahead of second-place finisher\u00a0Kenneth Bednarek of the U.S. In so doing, De Grasse secured Canada a gold in the 200-m sprint for the first time since 1928.\u00a0The 26-year-old from Markham, Ont., has been a meteoric star in Canadian athletics since his debut at the Pan American junior championships in 2013, but Olympic gold stayed out of reach\u2014until now.\u00a0\u201cThis was the race of my life,\u201d he told CBC, moments after picking himself up off the ground, where he lay, breathless, collapsed in joy, right after he finished his run. His marks Canada\u2019s 15th medal at the Tokyo Game<\/a>s, all but De Grasse\u2019s won by women. Say what you will about the Olympics\u2014the corrupt politics, the weak COVID protocols, the regressive nationalism that feels pass\u00e9 in any other context. Moments like these\u2014of united pride behind a single, exceptional human being doing something incredible in less than 20 seconds\u2014are what make the Games worth coming back to, again and again.
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