WATCH: Canada’s 4x100m gold-medal-winning reaction video

A month has handed for the reason that historic 4x100m gold-medal-winning performance from the Canadian quartet of Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Brendon Rodney and Jerome Blake on the 2022 World Championships in Eugene. Now you’ll be able to relive the expertise with an in-depth behind-the-scenes response video on Brown’s YouTube page.

Brown goes over the Canadian record-setting efficiency and describes the highway the 4 athletes have taken to get to this second.

“After successful a silver medal in Tokyo, we knew the job wasn’t completed and knew we had the potential to be on prime of the rostrum in Eugene,” says Brown.

The 30-minute video contains a full breakdown of the workforce’s journey within the 4x100m: from the warmup to the prelims to the ultimate.

The Canadian males completed second within the heats of the relay behind France and knew their passes wanted to be clear for a possibility to place themselves in rivalry for gold within the closing. Staff USA have been the favourites heading into the ultimate, having the 100m and 200m world champions Noah Lyles and Christian Coleman.

Brown talks about his expertise and nerves whereas standing within the blocks earlier than the beginning of the ultimate. “I needed to preserve telling myself that I’m the most effective starters on this planet. I knew if I bought out of the blocks rapidly and made a easy cross to Blake, we might put Rodney and De Grasse in good palms.”

Up to now, Canada’s anchor De Grasse has needed to chase down different groups over the ultimate 100m to get Canada on the rostrum. In Eugene, De Grasse was given the baton with the lead and by no means seemed again, incomes Canada its first relay gold since 1997.

A typical theme of Brown’s response video is chatting about what number of followers doubted the chances of the Canadian workforce, regardless of incomes a medal on the Tokyo Olympics with the identical squad.