Canada's Lanni Marchant celebrates after winning a bronze medal in the women's 10,000 m at the 2015 Pan Am games. ( Lucas Oleniuk / Toronto Star file photo )Forty-six hours after Lanni Marchant won Saturday’s Canadian 10K championships, she ran a gruelling 30-kilometre time trial up and down the Ottawa River pathway. Instead, head coach Peter Eriksson said the 10,000 metres would be her focus in Rio. The run was a simulation, suggested by Athletics Canada, to prove she could race both the 10,000 metres and marathon at the Rio Olympics. When Athletics Canada met this week to determine the marathon squad for Rio, Marchant — the Canadian record-holder in the women’s event — was told she wasn’t on the list.

Source: thestar June 03, 2016 22:41 UTC