Andre De Grasse will get a taste of empty-stadium sprinting next month in Florida

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“I’ll see what that’s like,” De Grasse said. “If come to that I would just have to get my mind right, be mentally focused, and try not to think of it in a weird way I guess — go about it as if it’s normal.”

Bailey, who captured gold at the world championships 25 years ago, and then raced to victory a year later at the Atlanta Olympics, compares the crowd to what basketball players call their “sixth man.” But when he crossed the finish line, looking sideways, his face stretched into a wide smile that would become one of track and field’s iconic photos, he soaked in the deafening roar.“It’s not the same, is it?” he said. “You go across the line, there’s the crowds, there’s flags waving, people are cheering, people are crying. It’s a different kind of emotion when you finish.”Lee said from a broadcaster’s perspective, there’s nothing like calling an Olympic 100-metre race.

De Grasse said he could race in an empty stadium. He figures it would be like training, where there’s obviously no-one watching, and compared it to the world championships last year in Doha, Qatar, which drew a disappointingly small crowd, even for the marquee 100 final.

 

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Globe_Sports And possibly the virus if he’s racing in Florida.

Globe_Sports For modern day track athletes, in the age of doping fatigue, they're pretty used to zero fans....

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