But Athletics Canada protested the result because Arai bumped Dunfee as he was passing in the final two kilometres, causing the Canadian to break stride.
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Slovakia won gold while Australia took the silver.
But Dunfee, who led the race at one point before dropping off the pace was gaining on Arai, fighting his way back to the medals. Christine Sinclair and Deanne Rose scored the goals for Canada. With only about two kilometres left in the race, Dunfee made a move to overtake Arai.
However, a couple of hours later and after Japan filed a counter-appeal, officials sided with Japan which put Canada back in fourth.
“I never thought this would happen again”, said Lamaze. “He got the better of me”.
After the initial review of the race tape, Arai was disqualified moving Dunfee to bronze and awarding Canada its first-ever Olympic medal in this event.
Dunfee originally finished fourth behind Japan’s Hirooki Arai.
Primeau says the Japanese delegation must have presented some new information in their appeal which wasn’t considered in the original decision.
De Grasse teamed with Akeem Haynes of Calgary, Brendon Rodney of Brampton, Ont., and Aaron Brown of Toronto to finish in 37.64 seconds, breaking the Canadian record of 37.69 set by the gold-medal winning team anchored by Donovan Bailey at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. For the most part, they tend. It’s how he recovered. “The top four obviously raced a flawless race and there’s no way around them”.
He’s always been a fighter, that’s why his dad was so pleased he got out of hockey as a kid and into running and later race walking.
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That Dunfee is long gone.
Most people think of an emergency roof fix as an unwanted expense, but the professionals at. Even here, after one trip to medical tent right after the finish line and looking like he was going to keel over again at any moment, he launched into a Lesson 101 on the sport. “We always do things the hard way”.
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Here’s how Canadian athletes performed throughout Brazil on Friday.
