The reigning 200m Olympic champion, Andre De Grasse, examined optimistic for COVID-19 upon his return to Canada from France on Monday, the place he ran a season-best time of 20.38 seconds within the 200m on the Paris Diamond League meet on Saturday.
The decathlon on the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Ore., is ready to happen on July 23 and 24.
Olympic decathlon champion and world indoor champion, Damian Warner, has additionally revealed he is not going to be competing on the Canadian Observe and Discipline Championships this weekend in Langley, B.C., since he’s injured.
Warner sustained a knee damage after hitting the final hurdle within the 110m hurdles on the Harry Jerome Basic final week. In an interview with CBC Sports activities, Warner’s coach, Homosexual Leyshon, stated, “We’re simply being cautious, with world championships three weeks away.”
The 32-year-old decathlete has his eyes on the one gold medal he’s lacking from his spectacular resume–world championship gold. Resulting from his efficiency this season at the Götzis Hypomeeting, Warner will nonetheless possible be named to Canada’s world championship staff.
Warner isn’t the one big-name athlete who has withdrawn from this weekend’s Canadian championships. Different athletes who aren’t competing embody Moh Ahmed, Justin Knight, Sage Watson, Andrea Seccafien and Gabriela DeBues-Stafford.
The next athletes are listed as scratches, and won’t be competing on the Bell Canadian Observe and Discipline Championships.
Listing ultimate as of June 20.
Les athlètes suivants ne participeront plus au Championnats canadien d’athlétisme Bell.
Liste définitive à partir du 20 juin. pic.twitter.com/FTFT7f5MFU
— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) June 21, 2022
DeBues-Stafford was compelled to close down her season a couple of weeks in the past after struggling a stress response in her sacrum, whereas Knight, Watson and Seccafien are additionally on the mend from an damage.
Knight completed seventh within the 5,000m on the Tokyo Olympics and has been out with an Achilles damage since September 2021. Ahmed has already been named to the world championship staff within the males’s 10,000m and has not disclosed an damage or relaxation.
Seccafien, who was fifteenth within the ladies’s 5,000m in Tokyo, tore her meniscus earlier than the beginning of the season, which required surgical procedure.
Final yr, athletes weren’t required to compete at nationals to be named to Staff Canada for the Olympics, due to Covid-related journey restrictions, however this yr, it’s again to enterprise as ordinary for many athletes. Athletics Canada has confirmed that Ahmed, Warner and De Grasse have medical/damage exemptions and are anticipated to be wholesome and in a position to compete at World Championships; the others are injured and won’t be chosen.
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