RIO DE JANEIRO — Canadian race walker Evan Dunfee appeared to lose a bronze medal, then won it back, then lost it again, all in the space of a few hours of a strange Friday. “I will sleep soundly tonight, and for the rest of my life, knowing I made the right decision,” Dunfee said in a statement late on Friday. Dunfee was in third place with only a kilometre left in the 50-kilometre race walk. He was jostled by oncoming walker Hirooki Arai of Japan, and the collision threw Dunfee off his stride — a key element of the race walk. The New York Times labelled him “the vigilante race walker” last year for his use of the internet to bring down cheating Russian race walkers.

Source: National Post August 20, 2016 00:00 UTC