De Grasse will draw on countless hours of training in Phoenix at Olympic trials
PHOENIX — When Andre De Grasse lines up against the world’s fastest men at the Rio Olympics, it will be the punctuation mark on a season that was written in countless training runs down the track at a small college in Arizona.
The Canadian sprint star raised some eyebrows when he upended his training environment just six months out from the Rio Olympics.
The 21-year-old swapped what was essentially a two-man training group at the University of Southern California to become just one of over 100 world-class athletes from 30 countries working with the Altis training centre in Phoenix.
Training against the best in the world on a daily basis, he said, will stand him in good stead when he lines up in Rio.