True Patriot Love - How a Sub-10 Canadian Sprinter Trains for LA 2028 ft. Duan Asemota

00:00:00.000 I stay consistent with my preparation, which is what helps me perform consistently and be very even keel.

00:00:06.040 But going to the next Olympics, the next world championships, I've had those reps.

00:00:09.780 I've been along guys like Andre de Grasse, Aaron Brown.

00:00:12.620 I've got medals now in world relays and the most mixed relay and the open relay to in Commonwealth.

00:00:17.920 I've won a national championship.

00:00:19.360 So I'm ready for this next couple of years leading into L.A. to really peak and turn over Canadian sprinting to the next generation.

00:00:30.000 He is the pride of Ajax Ontario.

00:00:33.960 He is a champion sprinter, one of Canada's top track and field athletes.

00:00:38.420 He has a great charity coming up in October we're going to speak about in a minute.

00:00:42.640 And he's a fantastic follow on Instagram at B1G Pocket.

00:00:46.640 He's Dwayne Asimodo.

00:00:48.240 And Dwayne, it's an absolute thrill to talk to you,

00:00:50.800 especially after an incredible performance in Glasgow at the Commonwealth Games.

00:00:54.940 How are you, my friend?

00:00:56.040 I'm doing good.

00:00:56.760 That was probably one of the best intros I've ever got coming on the show.

00:01:00.000 So I really appreciate that.

00:01:02.700 Thanks for having me on the show.

00:01:04.520 It's a pleasure, and you deserve it.

00:01:06.480 I mean, you were just talking before we started

00:01:09.020 that here you are training just days after you come back

00:01:12.420 from Commonwealth Games in Glasgow,

00:01:15.020 and you're getting the work in it.

00:01:17.540 It's a constant grind to stay at that level

00:01:21.160 where you're an elite level track and field athlete, a sprinter.

00:01:25.120 Yeah, of course.

00:01:26.220 Right after Commonwealth, I did a few days of vacation in Portugal,

00:01:29.360 so I didn't get right right back.

00:01:30.940 But, I mean, right after that, after I jumped off the plane on Saturday,

00:01:34.600 Monday I'm back at training.

00:01:36.200 Yesterday I was just at the National Bank open watching Cocoa golf.

00:01:39.620 But today I'm back in training.

00:01:41.360 It's all about the road to L.A., keeping consistent,

00:01:43.920 making sure you're staying steady.

00:01:45.600 I didn't race super well on Commonwealth individually,

00:01:48.060 and I always am striving for ways to get better

00:01:49.900 and push towards the Canadian record.

00:01:51.240 So, yeah, right back to work.

00:01:52.600 Still got things to do.

00:01:53.520 So before we get to what happened in the men's 4x100 meter,

00:01:58.360 and everything that happened was you got the silver medal.

00:02:01.900 I think a lot of people watching you, Dwayne,

00:02:04.340 and listening to you are wondering,

00:02:05.780 what kind of training do you do?

00:02:07.480 How much weightlifting, how much long sprinting,

00:02:10.460 short sprinting, interval training?

00:02:12.160 What goes into creating an athlete like you

00:02:14.640 who can run a sub-10-second 100-meter?

00:02:17.880 Honestly, it's pretty much different.

00:02:20.240 Some people have programs where they train

00:02:21.680 varying from five to six days a week.

00:02:23.620 I usually do four days a week.

00:02:25.540 So I do four days a week to keep up the quality

00:02:27.360 of each one of my workouts so that way i'm not coming into workouts i'm just gassing it

00:02:30.840 so i'll have in one week i'll probably have two heavy acceleration days which would be days we

00:02:35.820 work on starts accelerating from three-point stance i'll have two days where it will be longer

00:02:41.080 days longer sprint days between 80 meters to 90 meters 60 meters and then we all we all obviously

00:02:47.280 have the aerobic capacity day once a week too as well we're pushing 250 300 meters repeat 150s

00:02:52.520 that kind of stuff. So on the track, you get a mix of speed and power, resistance training

00:02:58.560 associated with non-resistance training. Then the weight room, which is one of the biggest things

00:03:04.020 I've improved on the past couple of years that kind of propelled me to making my last Olympic

00:03:07.780 team in the 100 meter was pretty much increasing the weight in the weight room on Olympic lifts.

00:03:12.300 So predominantly all the lifts I do are usually movement lifts because with running, it's all

00:03:16.400 about how fast can you run and how strong can you be while you run fast. So static lifts don't

00:03:22.500 really get as far in sprinting you usually have stuff like hang power cleans people do snatches

00:03:27.500 there's um jump squats variations rdls functional movements that kind of thing so that's what i'm

00:03:33.900 doing four days a week i'm cleaning roughly around 142 kilos which is 315 pounds i'm squatting uh

00:03:41.540 half squatting like 240 kilograms which is upwards of five 500 pounds plus uh uh on the bar but

00:03:47.920 that's kind of like a little bit of how heavy the weights i'm doing in the gym are

00:03:50.680 how are you balancing that with with therapy to like to tune your legs to keep the muscles

00:03:56.800 pliable and not injured and the diet the nutrition recovery that goes into that

00:04:01.480 yeah so i also have a rigorous treatment schedule as well so monday i usually do chiropractic work

00:04:07.040 see my chiropractor then tuesday we do more of a physio day so it might be any pinpoint stuff

00:04:12.120 like acupuncture dry needling just to clean up some residual stuff wednesday will be the day i

00:04:16.380 get a massage uh to kind of like iron out the muscles get me moving back so on thursday i can

00:04:22.280 go back and perform at a high level and thursday i pretty much take to myself i try to keep that

00:04:27.900 like self-care day because there's not going to be days where um there might be days where i might

00:04:33.260 not have treatment available so i always make sure i'm rolling out keeping my stretch routine

00:04:36.480 uh cold tub warm tub contrast things like that then friday i close out with like either a big

00:04:42.820 massage session or a big physio session where i get a bunch of acupuncture so keeping the body

00:04:47.340 maintained is pretty much similar to having like an f1 car if one thing is wrong in the car it

00:04:52.020 affects how the overall car is able to perform and then that's a good analogy because i was

00:04:56.860 thinking about brad pitt in the f1 movie every little thing has to be in tune for them to win

00:05:01.680 it's no different within an olympic level sprinter of course yes the 100 meters is one of the most

00:05:07.320 volatile sprinting and one of the most volatile things you can put your body through period

00:05:10.920 the like if people even say like humanly possible with what the body can handle wasn't even supposed

00:05:15.760 to go sub 10 that's to let you know how much people are pushing their limits on the body

00:05:19.840 but also too like you can have a toe go on wrong you can have your shoulder off you can have

00:05:25.000 your left hip is off and it really will bring your time down significantly so making sure you're

00:05:30.000 optimized is the goal so basically is for people watching if they don't know the people who they

00:05:35.520 should idolize are the people who are the most consistent everyone can have a good year one or

00:05:39.540 two good years but someone like Aaron Brown I idolized he's been going straight from university

00:05:44.220 never had a single year off of injury and stuff like that that's super inspiring to know that

00:05:48.320 he's that consistent not just with his work on the track but his work off the track as well

00:05:52.020 speaking with Dwayne Azumota one of the top sprinters in Canada one of the top track and

00:05:57.520 field athletes you can follow him on Instagram at b1gpocket and his website dwayneazumota.ca

00:06:03.960 when did your track and field journey start Dwayne when did you become obviously you probably played

00:06:10.040 a lot of sports as a kid but how did you steer into this path that this became your passion your

00:06:14.740 obsession so track actually found me I didn't find I didn't go looking for it obviously when

00:06:19.860 you're in school you do track and field day in elementary school you try a bunch of events you

00:06:23.820 win some you lose some so when I was in that phase I wasn't even winning the 100 meter in grade eight

00:06:28.000 I think I came like fourth so going into high school I was like a basketball player I'm like

00:06:32.200 you know what? Basketball is more my thing. If I go to high school, there's going to be a bunch

00:06:35.640 of more fast guys that I clearly couldn't beat in my school. So I couldn't probably beat in high

00:06:40.980 school. It wasn't until grade 10, I'm doing the beep test. And obviously everyone knows gym class

00:06:45.600 is also about the written work too. So I was like not really doing well in the written work. I was

00:06:50.400 trying to let my grades in the sport carry me. And my gym teacher pulls me inside. He's like,

00:06:55.420 you need to score this in this beep test or you're going to get like a C in the class.

00:06:58.880 so I'm working hard in the beep test doing that my gym teacher happened to also be the track and

00:07:03.000 field coach so he sees me work and he's like you know what we had a kid transfer out to school last

00:07:07.600 year on our relay team how would you like to come be a relay member so he says to come down to this

00:07:12.120 track I train at right now York University and do a track meet came out won the meet and pretty much

00:07:17.240 ever since I've been running that's amazing so and then obviously after high school what where did

00:07:23.600 you go from there as a sprinter and a track and field athlete so after high school I was lucky

00:07:28.440 enough to be paired with Tony Sharp and the Speed Academy. And that's where Andre de Grasse was as

00:07:32.800 well. So Andre de Grasse went to Cofferville Community College from Canada. So he basically

00:07:38.760 told me I was going to do the same thing, head straight from Notre Dame Catholic Secondary

00:07:42.540 School in Ajax, all the way to Cofferville Community College and do two years there,

00:07:46.200 then transfer to a D1 school. So that's pretty much exactly what happened. After I dropped my

00:07:50.440 diploma, I went to Cofferville, Kansas, which is a town of 9,000 people. It's literally last chance

00:07:55.520 you i don't know if anyone's watched that that's exactly yeah absolutely yeah so then you know

00:08:02.220 you know exactly what i mean if i say last chance you it was pretty much like you're out there with

00:08:06.520 limited resources limited money you're getting sack lunches to go to meets and just got to try

00:08:10.920 to find a way to make it out you did um you mentioned andre degrasse and that's one thing

00:08:16.540 devin haru who does such an amazing job at cbc and interviewed you and the team after the long

00:08:22.720 delay and the the rules violation dispute but you guys win the silver medal you mentioned about his

00:08:28.460 leadership not just for you but all the members of the track team what is it about Andre that

00:08:33.300 that helps you inspires you on and off the track and everyone involved with the track team in

00:08:37.820 Canada yeah Andre de Grasse I think a lot of me being privileged enough to be friends with him 0.81

00:08:43.420 off the track you get to know him and you kind of think he's a silly guy and he doesn't take

00:08:47.780 things too serious but his leadership is in the form of example this guy when he goes prepared 0.52

00:08:52.160 for race he's always stone cold killer he's always calm he might look like he has a smile on his face

00:08:57.120 and he's relaxed but whenever he gets into these races he performs and he executes uh and for me

00:09:01.480 personally it gives me a lot of confidence being alongside someone like that in a relay when you

00:09:05.340 know you have a dog on the team who's gonna be there and carry the team out of whatever position

00:09:09.700 we have and try to get us a medal for all of us it just teaches us to kind of be even kill have

00:09:15.160 more confident confidence in ourself trust our preparation and get to the track and execute

00:09:19.360 because Andre de Grasse has seven Olympic medals

00:09:21.200 and he didn't get that from being too stressed

00:09:23.480 in the call room, overworking himself in training.

00:09:25.720 He simply just believes in himself.

00:09:27.160 And for all of us, it helps us believe in ourself,

00:09:29.620 I think, a little bit more, speaking for myself.

00:09:31.640 And when we're in the call room

00:09:33.320 and it's not like he's not the one

00:09:34.940 who's giving the speeches,

00:09:35.700 but he's just the one leading with his energy and his vibe.

00:09:38.640 I know when you won the Canadian men's title in 2025,

00:09:41.700 the last 20, 25 meters, it was phenomenal, Dwayne.

00:09:45.300 But the one thing about Andre that I noticed

00:09:47.180 almost the whole race is how steady his head is it's like his body's doing all this work but he's

00:09:52.760 so calm from the neck up yeah andre is one of those people who are is an anomaly in different

00:09:58.680 ways he has really good balance coordination with his body so a lot of the sprinting is about

00:10:02.980 symmetry you got to have one leg doing the same thing as the left so what makes him super special

00:10:07.540 is that he's able to balance his body and his head his hips really level so that way his sprinting is

00:10:12.560 just efficient some people you might see when they're running from head on they might rock

00:10:16.140 from side to side.

00:10:17.240 Under the grass, you could probably lay a book in the middle

00:10:19.840 and it wouldn't even tilt at all.

00:10:21.740 It would just pretty much stay straight and everything's efficient.

00:10:24.480 Are you going to the indoor season again this year, Dwayne?

00:10:27.260 So I think for me personally, indoor hasn't been my strongest thing.

00:10:31.040 I'm not really the best starter.

00:10:32.500 It's not usually my strong suit.

00:10:34.120 I always try to push myself.

00:10:35.660 But indoor championships is in Toronto,

00:10:37.680 so I have to come out here and put on for my family and friends here.

00:10:42.360 Yeah, because your mom would not be impressed if you didn't compete, right?

00:10:46.140 my mom she hates when i don't compete because one of the major things she told me from the jump

00:10:50.860 whatever you're doing make sure you give it 100 and compete and that's the one thing i noticed

00:10:55.020 with your instagram that i wanted to bring up you really use social media wisely to inform people

00:11:02.320 inform your followers what happens like the day-to-day hour-to-hour reality of being a kid

00:11:08.400 from ajax or canada in scotland at an international track meet it shows some of your personality but i

00:11:14.000 find it very educational about where you guys are eating where you're living and what the experience

00:11:18.660 is like yeah i always try to make sure on social media i don't want people to just follow me because

00:11:23.180 they think i'm cool or they think i'm fast i want to show people what it's actually like to live in

00:11:28.120 the day of the life of the athlete like what is like when we're chilling in the room playing video

00:11:31.780 games and when we go and get food and when we go to the call room we might have a day out in the

00:11:36.260 city but it's more so just letting people know uh we're humans as well so when they see us on the

00:11:41.060 track and performing at a high level it almost looks more impressive and how much do you appreciate

00:11:45.840 it as an individual to meet all these different athletes and just people from all these different

00:11:50.320 countries and cultures when you go to international track meets it's a blessing ever since i even went

00:11:55.800 to school and university and at ohio state university meeting people who are international

00:12:00.600 or even meeting americans but when you go away to these big meets these competitions like

00:12:05.600 commonwealth games olympics world championships you see like-minded people who are pretty much

00:12:10.760 the same as you just different culture maybe you might speak a different language but that spirit

00:12:15.140 of sport that language of sport it carries and it's something to say when you're not around that

00:12:20.260 much people who are operating at that much of a high level it's like hundreds of people operating

00:12:25.000 at the 0.01 percent level it's crazy it's very infectious to be around so i would imagine that

00:12:31.920 you're only real off time where you eat cheat meals and snacks or in and around the holidays

00:12:36.640 at christmas or do you have any kind of uh holiday time where you give your body and mind a break

00:12:42.000 before you ramp up for the next big track season so i'd make sure during the season i don't go

00:12:47.240 crazy on anything no pastries no no no crazy takeout i try to keep it as cool and limited

00:12:54.060 as possible in the off season i go absolutely crazy but i will but i will say though if i do

00:13:00.120 have a big uh personal best or we get a medal and like we did before i might have a day or two where

00:13:07.120 i just might enjoy myself a little bit why not that's fantastic now one of the things you're

00:13:12.060 involved in is something really cool it's the pocket run 5k taking place in ajax ontario october

00:13:17.680 the 3rd and the net proceeds from the event going to right to play to support sport programming a

00:13:22.440 sport programming for youth in rwanda which is a very noble cause how did you get involved in it

00:13:28.200 way. Yeah. You talked a lot earlier about my Instagram and showing people the day-to-day life

00:13:34.200 of athletes and showing how we're human. One of the main things I saw or wanted to do once I made

00:13:39.020 the Paris Olympics, I said, okay, now I have this platform. What can I do to reach people? Because

00:13:44.220 along my path that I had coming to the Olympics, I had a lot of help, met a lot of people. So I got

00:13:49.000 involved with Right to Play through Sam Ethel, who was another Canadian Olympian. He basically

00:13:53.480 introduced me to the program because I was doing a lot of work with kids. I started off doing

00:13:56.780 clinics with Athletics Ontario, where I was giving that to kids right after the Olympics.

00:14:00.340 I went to the Right to Play Heroes Gala and saw a lot of the work that they were doing. And I said,

00:14:04.200 perfect. My parents are from Lagos, Nigeria. They're helping kids all around the world.

00:14:08.580 And I know what it's like to come from nothing when I see through their eyes. I've went back

00:14:13.040 to Nigeria, seen where they've grown up, played with the kids in the village too as well. So when

00:14:18.160 I got the opportunity to join Right to Play, I said, this is something that really instills not

00:14:21.460 only core values, but family values too as well. And when I joined, they promised me, they're like,

00:14:26.160 you're not going to get any, they didn't promise me anything. They told me you're not going to get

00:14:28.980 these trips to Africa or anything. But, um, last, uh, last year they hit me up and they're like,

00:14:34.640 Hey, we have an opportunity for you to go to Rwanda. I'd like, this is amazing. My, I had a

00:14:38.280 friend, Steve new ski. He's a high jumper for Canada. We both made our first team Canada

00:14:42.320 together. He was from Rwanda and he had passed away in a tragic, um, swimming incident. He always

00:14:48.280 told me to visit Rwanda and Rwanda is a great place. So I said, this is great. I'm going to

00:14:52.440 takes the opportunity and go. And when I went, I was pretty much jaw on the floor with how the

00:14:56.780 impact of right to play, like when you go to these galas and you donate and you never really get the

00:15:01.020 chance to see where the money goes and the impact of it. But I went and I saw that they had a

00:15:05.000 program called the STEM program. The kids were making full, fully working robotics. One girl

00:15:11.060 made a fully working hospital. Another one made a school alarm and an elevator. And that program 1.00

00:15:15.940 was unfortunately being cut funded because of the fact that right to play didn't have enough money

00:15:20.120 to spread throughout, throughout it. So when I got home from the experience, obviously I was

00:15:24.160 feeling very touched and very moved by it, but I was also very determined and motivated to see

00:15:28.840 what I can do within myself and my brand and my platform that I can give back to them. So the

00:15:33.620 pocket run 5k came together with my love for sprinting. And obviously it's better if we have

00:15:39.020 everyone do a 5k, then we have everyone line up for a hundred. I think it makes for a better event

00:15:43.020 and healthier, healthier outcomes. It's unfair because you're in it.

00:15:46.640 i mean you can't i'm a competitor you can't blame me you get more details at the pocket run.ca

00:15:55.080 and if you want to be a sponsor there's plenty of time to hop on board before it runs out

00:16:00.120 and support a great cause and i have to think duane it must have been eye-opening and humbling

00:16:05.200 to see the response from kids in rwanda to hear you are this olympic athlete from ajax

00:16:10.480 what was that experience like meeting the young people there in that country for me it was very

00:16:16.260 it was very eye-opening because when you hear about all these countries you see all these

00:16:20.600 pictures it's one thing but being there them coming up to you wanting to meet you asking you

00:16:25.380 about simple stuff about your race how you got started and even just the fact that you being

00:16:29.840 there creates so much positive energy for them it really means a lot because as an athlete your

00:16:34.720 reach only seems so much as your community you don't really think you're anything outside of

00:16:38.500 that so going there and kids felt like i want to be like you one day i want to be able to go to

00:16:43.040 olympics just giving them that person who they see so that they feel like they can dream it too

00:16:47.520 and i felt like for me i just think every athlete should take the opportunity they can to try to

00:16:53.060 do as much outreach as you can and inspire as much kids as you can because you never know it's

00:16:58.220 always that person who said i met this one person and then that made me do this or i met this one

00:17:02.540 person who inspired me or talked to me to do this so i think that experience pretty much showed me

00:17:07.700 the power we have with sports the power of being an olympian the power of being a top athlete it's

00:17:11.700 more than just time sponsorships and brand deals it's all about how much can you connect with

00:17:16.740 people and how much can you actually help them so you've been to paris you've been to

00:17:21.800 different olympic games you're getting ready for los angeles now that you're such an experienced

00:17:26.920 international track athlete duane is your mental preparation different because it's you you know

00:17:33.880 what to expect and you know what you're dealing with and you know how to prepare yourself so

00:17:37.520 when you get in those starter blocks you're at your absolute zenith your absolute peak of

00:17:42.340 proficiency yeah for sure i think first couple years being on the scene first olympics first

00:17:48.660 commonwealth games first world championship there's a bunch of nerves that you have settling

00:17:52.520 in and everyone i try to lie to myself like it's just another race but all these races are different

00:17:57.520 all of them are bigger and they all bring something different out of you i stay consistent

00:18:01.040 with my preparation which is what helps me perform consistently and be very even kill but going to

00:18:07.180 the next olympics the next world championships i've had those reps i've been along guys like

00:18:11.060 under the grass aaron brown i've got medals now in world relays and the most mixed relay and the

00:18:16.060 open uh relay to in commonwealth i've won a national championship so i'm ready for this

00:18:20.920 next couple years leading into la to really peak and turn over canadian sprinting to the next

00:18:25.360 generation i know in basketball and football and other sports there's trash talking they trip each

00:18:31.440 other when you're in international sprinting and you're in the start of blocks do guys ever talk

00:18:36.000 back and forth no in the block specifically no one will talk to you in the blocks you're supposed

00:18:40.700 to be a little bit quiet on the start where you see more of the bravado is like the call room so

00:18:44.620 the call room is almost like the bullpen almost i don't know how to explain it it's you took you

00:18:49.200 take 10 guys or eight guys are running a race you put them in a room you where they're getting ready

00:18:52.960 putting on their bibs putting on their their numbers taking off their stuff getting ready

00:18:56.600 and it's just like you know how it is when you're in an elevator full of guys and everyone's trying

00:19:00.960 to show who's not scared who's going to run the fastest it's like this kind of pissing contest

00:19:05.220 and that's where the trash talk comes someone like no allows he's more vocal but then when he when he

00:19:11.140 gets to the car room he'll just try to be loud and throw you off with his antics with his screaming

00:19:15.820 his jumping and all that stuff and then also like within the meet sometimes when you when you walk

00:19:20.480 past people sometimes they might give you a look or this guy's been looking at me all week when he

00:19:24.600 knows he's about to race some of it some of it is more of like the stuff that goes the non-verbal

00:19:29.280 cues that you pick up on the direct trash talk can come online though has it come the other way

00:19:34.380 though where you got a compliment or encouragement from an athlete you didn't expect that you thought

00:19:38.720 well that was really nice yeah but that always comes after you have to humble them that doesn't

00:19:42.760 come before that sometimes you gotta you gotta make people feel you and that's why i love track

00:19:46.760 because it's like the ultimate measure of brute strength it's like an arm wrestle after that time

00:19:51.900 we run now granted races can go different ways there can be certain technical things that throw

00:19:56.880 it off but when you beat someone to the point where they know they can't run faster than you

00:20:00.160 you get a different level of respect from them and that's what i love getting from my competitors

00:20:03.840 is when I'm able to be grateful enough to win my races.

00:20:07.020 You train in all sorts of weather, but you mentioned when it's really hot

00:20:10.680 because most running tracks are rubberized,

00:20:13.440 it can almost burn your fingers, you said.

00:20:16.120 Exactly. Once you're pushing over 30 degrees, 32,

00:20:19.240 you could be touching the track, you could be on the track with your bare foot.

00:20:22.280 The track is lava. It's hot. It will burn you.

00:20:25.140 You have to put water on it.

00:20:27.500 My coaches have to put water on the start lines

00:20:29.640 just to make sure our hands didn't burn from the rubber and the heat

00:20:32.900 because it heats up, too, when it hits the track.

00:20:36.420 Do you have a preferred time of day that you like to work out when you're running?

00:20:40.100 Yeah, I love training in the mornings.

00:20:41.380 I think mornings when you wake up, that's when your energy level is optimal.

00:20:44.780 You're more alert in the morning.

00:20:46.840 And for me, it's like getting training out of the way.

00:20:49.460 I've been waiting the whole day to training.

00:20:51.000 I feel like my energy level kind of drops and I have to pick it back up.

00:20:53.760 But first thing in the morning is usually when I go,

00:20:56.200 I train at 9 a.m. at the Toronto Track and Field Center,

00:20:58.880 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday.

00:21:00.900 He is a national champion.

00:21:02.320 He's a Commonwealth Games silver medalist.

00:21:05.360 He has the Pocket Run 5K coming up in Ajax, Ontario, October the 3rd.

00:21:09.540 You can be a sponsor at thepocketrun.ca to help the right to play in Rwanda.

00:21:14.240 He is an absolute must-follow on Instagram at B1G Pocket.

00:21:17.960 I really like your feed.

00:21:19.360 The website, duaneazomota.ca.

00:21:22.100 So what else is coming up for you the rest of the summer and the rest of the year, Dwayne?

00:21:26.180 So we're coming up on the World Ultimate Championships.

00:21:28.300 the inaugural first ever world ultimate championships or world athletics is

00:21:31.380 putting together a special championship this year where the prize money has

00:21:35.240 been increased has been doubled and our mixed relay team qualified at world

00:21:38.860 relays. We came silver to Jamaica. We broke the world record in the heats.

00:21:42.660 They broke the world record in the, in the, in the finals.

00:21:45.020 So it's going to be a good rematch going in and Budapest that's September

00:21:48.220 11th and 12th. You can catch that on CBC sports usually captures that.

00:21:52.600 So that's, what's coming up next for me and what I'm preparing for.

00:21:55.720 What is the mixed relay experience like as opposed to just the men's four by 100?

00:22:01.000 Mixed relay is completely different.

00:22:02.160 So you have two girls, two guys.

00:22:03.400 When we first won the event for the very first time last year in China, it was a girl to start, a girl goes second, a boy goes third, and a boy goes fourth.

00:22:11.980 If you ask me, I think because we won, they changed it to a guy goes first, a girl goes second, then a guy goes third, now a girl goes fourth.

00:22:19.660 So they switched it up on us a little bit this year,

00:22:22.980 but we're going to get ready for that coming up in Budapest.

00:22:26.320 Outstanding.

00:22:26.720 And that's also going to be in the Olympics, too, as well, coming up.

00:22:29.160 So everyone should look out for Canada in both the Open and the mixed relay.

00:22:33.120 Okay, so is that the first time it's a medal sport, the mixed relay, coming up in L.A.?

00:22:38.040 Yes, it's going to be the first time it's introduced in the Olympics

00:22:40.400 as a medal sport and as a sport period.

00:22:42.640 So we've been working hard.

00:22:44.260 We were the defending champions in 2025.

00:22:46.840 We got a silver medal in 2026 this year.

00:22:49.760 So we're a top two in the top two in the world program.

00:22:52.300 We have a top two all time time.

00:22:53.820 So going into LA,

00:22:54.740 we're going to make sure we have a medal secured and have medals around

00:22:56.980 our neck,

00:22:57.340 hopefully in LA.

00:22:58.260 Well,

00:22:58.640 I know it was a long wait in Glasgow until all the judges decided you

00:23:01.520 were silver medalists,

00:23:02.680 but you guys,

00:23:03.780 as always,

00:23:04.220 as Canadians handle it with great class,

00:23:05.900 you represented the country.

00:23:07.200 Well,

00:23:07.620 Dwayne,

00:23:07.920 an absolute thrill to talk to you.

00:23:09.500 Good luck with your training.

00:23:10.480 Good luck with the pocket run 5k.

00:23:13.060 And we'll speak to you again as you get closer to Los Angeles.

00:23:16.380 Thank you.

00:23:16.820 It would be great to have you out there and run 5K.

00:23:18.660 It would look like you could drop a good time,

00:23:20.740 so we've got to make that happen.

00:23:22.380 I don't know if it's a good time, but I'll finish.

00:23:24.860 Okay, well, I'll tell you this, too.

00:23:25.980 Also, I'm going to add on, too, at the Pocket Run,

00:23:28.160 we're going to be having a 40-yard dash installment

00:23:30.180 sponsored by OVR Timing.

00:23:32.480 So after the 5K, we're going to take a couple hours

00:23:35.380 where we're going to have a lot of our vendors

00:23:36.760 replenish some of our athletes with electrolytes, food,

00:23:39.660 and we're going to go for the 40-yard dash,

00:23:41.260 and we'll see who's going to be having the fastest 40-yard dash

00:23:44.040 in Ajax on the day.

00:23:44.840 So you want to come check that out too?

00:23:46.800 Look like you probably think like you look like a four,

00:23:48.580 six guy,

00:23:49.000 maybe four,

00:23:49.400 seven,

00:23:50.020 five,

00:23:51.280 two,

00:23:51.700 five,

00:23:52.080 four.

00:23:53.360 Let's be honest.

00:23:54.980 I haven't run a sub five 40 in a long time.

00:23:58.620 The pocket run.

00:24:00.060 Dotsie with Dwayne as a motor Canadian sprinter.

00:24:02.680 Thank you,

00:24:02.960 Dwayne.

00:24:03.700 Thank you for having me.

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How a Sub-10 Canadian Sprinter Trains for LA 2028 ft. Duan Asemota

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