The pressure is heavy, but the opportunity is massive for Malik Metivier. The Toronto hurdler will be competing at the Canadian track and field Olympic trials that run from Wednesday through Sunday in Montreal.
The Toronto hurdler will be competing at the Canadian track and field Olympic trials that run from Wednesday through Sunday in Montreal.
"Right now, I'm just loving it. Every day feels almost like life or death because the Olympics, that's how you make your money. I'll really be able to set up the next four years financially with just qualifying. Without doing that, it's going to be way more difficult.Metivier was a silver medallist at the 2022 NCAA championships in the men’s 400 hurdles in his senior year at Texas Tech before encountering a string of bad luck.
Metivier got his visa in October but was told by surgeons that he no longer needed surgery because the bone had largely healed by then. “Coach Kurt is like a magician, man. … He knows we can't get a lot of work in, so he makes it that everything we do is very specific, very intense and you can feel yourself getting better every time you touch the track.
The debut eventually came on June 13 at the Edmonton Athletics Invitational where he ran 49.07 seconds, his third-fastest time ever, despite it being his first race in almost two years and feeling"80 per cent" from his latest injury issue.
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