Sixth for Canadian men's relay team
Aug 22, 2008 - 11:05 AM
Brad Kelly
BEIJING -- The Canadian men's relay team finished right where they started.
Coming into the Olympic Games ranked sixth in the world in the 4x100m
relay, the team, with Pickering's Anson Henry running the second leg,
finished sixth in a time of 38.66 at the National Stadium on Friday
night.
The race was won in world record time by the powerful Jamaican
team, who crushed the rest of the field, clocked at 37.10. Trinidad and
Tobago was second in 38.06, followed by Japan, who won the bronze in
38.15.
Henry wasn't surprised by the domination of Jamaica, who had 100- and 200m winner Usain Bolt running the third leg.
"No, we weren't surprised," said Henry. "If you saw the one hundred
and how they've been running all year, we expected them to be quick."
The time for Canada was a season best, after qualifying for the final
the night before in a time of 38.77, finishing second in their heat.
Henry said the team, that included Hank Palmer, Jared Connaughton
and Pierre Brown of North York running anchor, left some time out on
the track through bad baton exchanges.
"We didn't get any time for the exchanges," said the 29-year-old. "They
were really short. The baton didn't keep moving. We needed to do that
because it was a world record race.
"There were some legs in that race. We had to be slick through the
zones and we weren't. Our runs were OK because it was a season best
time with garbage exchanges."
The hamstring that he tweaked during the second round of the men's 100m
earlier in the Games was still bothering him as he ran down the back
straight. But it was a situation where he didn't want to let the team
down.
"I had to run with the team. They needed me and I did what I could with it," he reasoned.
He plans to take the next month off, returning home to Pickering to get
healthy, then start preparing for next year's World Championships in
Germany.
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