Sprint legend Usain Bolt calls Canada's De Grasse 'the guy to beat'
CBC
Lamont Marcell Jacobs may be the 100 metres Olympic champion but Andre De Grasse is the man to watch and runner most likely to put his stamp on the men's sprints, says the world's fastest man Usain Bolt.
De Grasse took silver behind the Italian in Tokyo but the Canadian's consistency makes him the front-runner to dominate the sprint scene, including next year's world championships which will be staged in the United States for the first time.
The Tokyo Olympic 200m title represents the only major gold on De Grasse's resume, but the 26-year-old has been a medal machine at the big events, collecting 10 Olympic and world championship medals.
DeGrasse has been on Bolt's radar since finishing runner-up to the Jamaican sprint king in the 100m at the 2016 Rio Games and now the Canadian may finally be ready to assume the throne.
"Andre De Grasse is more consistent any time he is in shape he is always on the podium," Bolt told Reuters. "So if that continues on this line he would be the guy to watch, or he will be the guy to beat.
"Everyone else has been up and down, win one meet lose the next and it is all about consistency."
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