Aaron Brown won his fifth straight men’s 100-metre national title with a time of 10.08 seconds at the Canadian track and field championships on Friday in Langley, B.C.
Brendon Rodney finished second in the event (10.12), closely followed by fellow Olympians Bismark Boateng (10.17) and Jerome Blake (10.19).
“I’ve had championships go down to the wire and I was used to it and it was the moment I lived for,” Brown said, standing next to his son Kingsley.
WATCH | Brown wins men’s 100m national title:
Aaron Brown captures 5th straight men’s 100m national title
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Toronto’s Aaron Brown wins the men’s 100-metre final with a time of 10.08 seconds at the Canadian track and field championships in Langley, B.C., for his sixth career title in the event.
Six-time Olympic medallist Andre De Grasse failed to qualify for the men’s 100 final.
De Grasse finished ninth among the semifinalists with a time of 10.21 seconds. The reigning Olympic men’s 200m champion and 100m bronze medallist is among the athletes who have not yet met their qualifying standards for next month’s world championships in Hungary.
The 28-year-old from Markham, Ont., will compete in the men’s 200m on Sunday, the same day the qualifying window closes.
“His season is his season and mine is mine,” Brown said. “I know he’ll bounce back. He’s a champion.”
WATCH | De Grasse fails to reach 100m qualifying standard for worlds:
Andre De Grasse fails to reach 100m qualifying standard for world championships
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Andre De Grassse from Markham, Ont., finishes ninth in the men’s 100-metre semifinal with a time of 10.21 seconds at the Canadian track and field championships in Langley, B.C. De Grasse fails to reach the final and doesn’t meet the qualifying standard for next month’s world championships in Hungary.
Damian Warner — the reigning Olympic champion in the decathlon — failed to qualify for the men’s 400 after missing the cut in the preliminary round.
He competed earlier in the discus, placing sixth, and will take part in the hurdles on Saturday.
Khamica Bingham won the women’s 100 final with a time of 11.25 seconds.
WATCH | Bingham wins 2nd straight national title in women’s 100m:
Khamica Bingham claims back-to-back women’s 100m national titles
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Khamica Bingham of Brampton, Ont., wins the women’s 100-metre final with a time of 11.25 seconds at the Canadian track and field championships in Langley, B.C.
Rogers sets hammer throw record
Richmond, B.C., native Camryn Rogers won the women’s hammer throw event setting a Canadian championship record with a throw of 77.43 metres.
“After this, I’m even more excited — if that’s possible — than before for worlds,” she said.
Rogers — who won silver at the 2022 world championships and whose personal best is 78.62 — said she is now aiming for the 80 mark.
“We have a lot of energy, we have a lot of really good things happening in the throws right now and it’s about putting it together,” Rogers said.
“Chase the 80-metre line. Get as close as we can or even over it.”
Nicole Ostertag won the women’s heptathlon with 6019 points, edging out Georgia Ellenwood of Langley, B.C., by 18.
“It’s been a tough couple of days. I was lucky to have Georgia to compete against,” Ostertag said.
“Competing against Georgia was an amazing experience. She had a lot of people rooting for her here and I wanted to use that as fuel for myself.”
De Grasse, Brown, Blake and Rodney will get their upgraded Tokyo Olympic silver medals Saturday at the Canadian national trials in a medal reallocation ceremony.
“It sets a perfect story for us to get gold at the next Olympics,” Brown said.
The group had initially earned bronze in the men’s 4×100 relay at the Tokyo Games two years ago.
However, an official upgrade came in May 2022 following the disqualification of the British team due to a doping violation by team member CJ Ujah.
The men’s 4×100 team is also preparing to defend its title at worlds in Budapest, Hungary.
“We won gold last year, why aim lower?” Brown said.
GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Canada’s Marina Stakusic fell 6-4, 6-3 to Poland’s Magdalena Frech in the quarterfinals of the Guadalajara Open tennis tournament on Friday.
The 19-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., won 61 per cent of her first-serve points and broke on just one of her six opportunities.
Stakusic had upset top-seeded Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (0) on Thursday night to advance.
In the opening round, Stakusic defeated Slovakia’s Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 6-2, 6-4 on Tuesday.
The fifth-seeded Frech won 62 per cent of her first-serve points and converted on three of her nine break point opportunities.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 13, 2024.
TORONTO – Alejandro Kirk’s long single with the bases loaded provided the Toronto Blue Jays with a walk-off 4-3 win in the 11th inning of their series opener against the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday.
With the Cardinals outfield in, Kirk drove a shot off the base of the left-field wall to give the Blue Jays (70-78) their fourth win in 11 outings and halt the Cardinals’ (74-73) two-game win streak before 30,380 at Rogers Centre.
Kirk enjoyed a two-hit, two-RBI outing.
Erik Swanson (2-2) pitched a perfect 11th inning for the win, while Cardinals reliever Ryan Fernandez (1-5) took the loss.
Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman enjoyed a seven-inning, 104-pitch outing. He surrendered his two runs on nine hits and two walks and fanned only two Cardinals.
He gave way to reliever Genesis Cabrera, who gave up a one-out homer to Thomas Saggese, his first in 2024, that tied the game in the eighth.
The Cardinals started swiftly with four straight singles to open the game. But they exited the first inning with only two runs on an RBI single to centre from Nolan Arendao and a fielder’s choice from Saggese.
Gausman required 28 pitches to escape the first inning but settled down to allow his teammates to snatch the lead in the fourth.
He also deftly pitched out of threats from the visitors in the fifth, sixth and seventh thanks to some solid defence, including Will Wagner’s diving stop, which led to a double play to end the fifth inning.
George Springer led off with a walk and stole second base. He advanced to third on Nathan Lukes’s single and scored when Vladimir Guerrero Jr. knocked in his 95th run with a double off the left-field wall.
Lukes scored on a sacrifice fly to left field from Spencer Horwitz. Guerrero touched home on Kirk’s two-out single to right.
In the ninth, Guerrero made a critical diving catch on an Arenado grounder to throw out the Cardinals’ infielder, with reliever Tommy Nance covering first. The defensive gem ended the inning with a runner on second base.
St. Louis starter Erick Fedde faced the minimum night batters in the first three innings thanks to a pair of double plays. He lasted five innings, giving up three runs on six hits and a walk with three strikeouts.
ON DECK
Toronto ace Jose Berrios (15-9) will start the second of the three-game series on Saturday. He has a six-game win streak.
The Cardinals will counter with righty Kyle Gibson (8-6).
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 13, 2024.
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia cornerback Daniel Harris was arrested on a reckless driving charge after police said he was driving 106 mph, the latest player on the top-ranked Bulldogs to run afoul of the law behind the wheel.
The sophomore from Miami was stopped by Athens-Clarke County police and booked into jail on five misdemeanor charges at 10:40 p.m. Thursday, according to an online report. He was released about an hour later on a total of $50 in bonds.
In addition to reckless driving, Harris was charged with no proof of insurance, driving an unregistered vehicle, failing to use safety belts and illegal tinting of the windows.
According to an incident report obtained by the Athens Banner-Herald, Harris was stopped near the Georgia campus after passing two other vehicles on a rainy evening in a 2018 Jeep Cherokee. He was clocked doing 41 mph over the speed limit of 65 mph.
The arrest came less than 48 hours before Georgia (2-0) played its first Southeastern Conference game at Kentucky.
Coach Kirby Smart has acknowledged struggling to get his players to drive safely — an issue that took on heightened importance since a crash that killed a player and a recruiting staffer in January 2023, shortly after the team celebrated its second straight national championship.
Football players at the school have been involved in at least two dozen driving-related violations such as DUI, reckless driving or speeding, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution has reported. Offensive lineman Devin Willock and recruiting staffer Chandler LeCroy were killed in the crash that occurred while LeCroy and defensive tackle Jalen Carter were racing.
Smart has steadfastly declined to comment on any punishment that his players receive, though past history would indicate that Harris will be suspended for the game Saturday in Lexington, Kentucky.
Running back Trevor Etienne did not play in a season-opening victory over Clemson after an offseason arrest. He did play this past Saturday against Tennessee Tech.
Without providing specifics, Smart has said that players are disciplined with suspensions and fines through the collective that provides name, image and likeness payments to the school’s athletes.
“The incidents that have been happening off the field are not something we condone,” Smart said this summer before taking the stage at SEC Media Days in Dallas. “It’s very unfortunate, disappointing, I guess is the best word.”
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