Here's Where the Journey Begins: Olympic Champions Kick Off World Championships 4x100m Relay Quest
The Paris Olympics held last year offered numerous spectacular highlights for Canadian athletics, with perhaps the most exhilarating being the gold medal win in the men's 4x100-meter relay finals. This weekend, the team featuring Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Brendon Rodney, and Jerome Blake returns to the venue where they started their path to Olympic gold—the World Athletics Relays—and they're keen to leverage this competition as another stepping stone. This year’s gathering in Guangzhou, China, offers a clear route to the major event on this season’s competitive schedule: the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September. Relay squads have the opportunity to secure a berth at the world championships by making it to their corresponding finals in Guangzhou. "It's super important. It all starts here in World Relays in China," De Grasse said. "The main objective for us [is to] make sure that we qualify … so that we are at the world champion...