De Grasse breezes to win
Canadian sprint star Andre De Grasse captured his third straight Diamond League victory Sunday. The 22-year-old from Markham, Ont., pulled away from the field to win the 100 metres in a blistering 9.69 seconds. The time would have been both a Canadian record and a big personal best for De Grasse, but the wind reading was an illegal 4.8 metres per second — anything two metres and above is illegal. The Canadian record is 9.84, held by both Donovan Bailey (1996 Olympics) and Bruny Surin (1999 world championships). Meanwhile, Melissa Bishop of Eganville, Ont., was fourth in the women’s 800 metres.