Tokyo Olympics: Canada's Lauriane Genest claims bronze in women's keirin - The Globe and Mail

IZU, JAPAN - AUGUST 05: Bronze medalist Lauriane Genest of Team Canada, pose on the podium during the medal ceremony after the Women's Keirin final of the track cycling on day thirteen of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Izu Velodrome on August 05, 2021 in Izu, Japan.

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OLYMPIC EVENTS FOR AUG. 5

• Lauriane Genest earns bronze in women’s keirin: Lauriane Genest, who barely made it into the final, finishing 0.005 seconds ahead of Russian Olympic Committee’s Daria Shmeleva, claimed bronze today in women’s keirin. Genest finished just .148 seconds behind Dutch winner Shanne Braspennincx and .061 behind New Zealand’s silver medalist, Ellesse Andrews. Genest is the second Canadian woman to win an Olympic medal in an individual track cycling race after Edmonton’s Lori-Ann Muenzer captured sprint gold in 2004.
• Decathlon leader Damian Warner has gold within his grasp: Canada’s Damian Warner broke an Olympic decathlon record yesterday with a 13.46 second finish in the 110-metre hurdles. He finished third in discus throw, and cleared 4.90-metres in the pole vault. After eight events in the decathlon competition, Warner has a grip on first place, and the 31-year-old London, Ont., native is focused on steering it home for gold. After some career-best results Wednesday in the Tokyo Olympics, Warner (7,490 points) has a 221-point lead over Ashley Moloney of Australia (7,269), while fellow Canadian Pierce LePage sat third (7,175).
• Laurence Vincent-Lapointe wins first ever Olympic silver in canoe sprint: Vincent-Lapointe, a dominant canoeing force for more than a decade, had to wait for the sport’s international federation and the International Olympic Committee to make room for women to race at the Olympics. The women’s event was finally included at this year’s Tokyo Olympics and Vincent-Lapointe will stand on its first podium, claiming silver with a time of 46.786 seconds.
• What’s happening today: Women’s Pole Vault final (6 a.m. EDT), Men’s Decathlon Javelin (6:15 a.m. EDT), Women’s 4x400m relay race round 1 (6:25 a.m. EDT), Women’s Heptathlon (8:20 a.m. EDT), Men’s Decathlon 1500m final (8:40 a.m. EDT), Men’s 50km race walk final (4:30 p.m. EDT), Women’s Canoe Sprint C2 500m heats (8:30 p.m. EDT), Men’s Canoe Sprint C1 1000m heats (8:44 p.m. EDT), Women’s Canoe Sprint K4 500m heats (9:30 p.m. EDT), Men’s Canoe Sprint K4 500m heats (9:44 p.m. EDT), Women’s Soccer final Canada vs. Sweden (10 p.m. EDT)

OFF THE FIELD

• The IOC changes the kickoff time for the women’s soccer final: Olympic organizers are changing the start time of the women’s soccer gold-medal game between Canada and Sweden. The match will now be played Friday night (9 p.m. local time, or 8 a.m. Eastern Time) at International Stadium Yokohama. Both women’s soccer teams asked to avoid kicking off in the Olympic Stadium at 11 a.m. local time Friday citing concerns to players’ health as the forecast temperature at that time is around 31 C.
• Belarus sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya arrives in Poland after refusing to go home: Belarusian Olympic athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has reached Warsaw via Vienna after the country offered her a humanitarian visa. The sprinter caused a diplomatic incident on Sunday when she said her coaches had cut her Tokyo Games short, demanding she return home against her wishes because she had publicly criticized them. Some Belarusians waited for Tsimanouskaya’s arrival at Warsaw airport holding signs of resistance: carnations and flags in red-and-white.
• Japan warns of unprecedented COVID-19 spread as Tokyo cases hit new record: Coronavirus infections in across Japan are surging at a pace “unseen in the past,” Health Minister Norihisa Tamura said. The news is overshadowing the Olympics and adding to doubts over the government’s handling of the pandemic.

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‘I finally did it, Mom!’ Andre De Grasse’s family celebrate an Olympic gold nine years in the making

Andre De Grasse’s gold medal finish at the Tokyo Olympics can finally put an end to the good-natured ribbing he’s gotten ever since his partner, Nia Ali, won a gold medal in the 100-metre hurdles at the 2019 world championships. Still, Ali said, the fact that her victory wasn’t in an Olympic competition inspires her now to “get back on the horse” after taking some time away from sport to have another child with De Grasse, their second together, a son born in May. Beverley De Grasse, Andre’s mother, was similarly elated by the news.

Andre De Grasse ‘has another decade of sprinting’ in him, his Olympian youth coach says

After Wednesday night’s triumph, no one will count out De Grasse any more. With five medals, he is already the most decorated Olympic sprinter in Canadian history. What more could he still achieve?

“I think Andre has another decade of sprinting in his body,” said Tony Sharpe, the former Olympic bronze-medal sprinter who is credited with discovering De Grasse at a high-school track meet in 2012. Because De Grasse turned professional after only one season running for the University of Southern California in the NCAA competitions, “he didn’t run a four-year college season,” Sharpe said, speaking to reporters at the news conference after Beverley De Grasse’s remarks. “That can put a lot of mileage on a sprinter. So, he’s got fairly fresh legs for a guy that’s winning Olympic gold already. I can anticipate that he should be around for another two or three Olympic cycles.”

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