RIO DE JANEIRO — In a news conference earlier in the day, a two-time Olympic champion pole vaulter compared life to a boomerang. Four years ago in London, the Canadian men’s 4×100-metre relay team lost an Olympic bronze medal after video review showed that Jared Connaughton had stepped on the lane line while passing the baton to the anchor runner, Justyn Warner. Some will see that as poetic justice for an U.S. team on which three of the four runners had served doping suspensions. “Hell, we already did the victory lap and then when we talked to TV, they told us,” Tyson Gay said. But once the baton got safely into Bolt’s left hand — he quickly moved it to the right — the race was over.

Source: National Post August 20, 2016 04:07 UTC