Canadian Kretz comes from back of the Olympic triathlon pack to finish 15th

A 15th-place finish is the same position left Tyler Wislawchuk of Oak Bluff, Man., gutted out the day before.She was the 55th and final athlete in the world to qualify for the Olympics.

“Never quit in triathlon. A lot can happen,” said the competitor who not only was nowhere to be seen when a group of seven came out of Tokyo Bay 51 seconds ahead of the next group … and she wasn’t part of that either.“I had to fight to get here and I had to fight to get my result. I hope people back home are proud of me,” she said.

”We’re very excited to hear that we’ll have spectators in Edmonton. It will allow my parents to come and watch and cheer. It’s exciting that people will be able to watch our races live,” said Kretz.Thirty-three-year-old Flora Duffy became the first athlete from Bermuda to ever win an Olympic gold medal and made her nation of 60,000 people the smallest ever to win Olympic Games gold. She’s certainly to be celebrated.

As is the case with all events at the Tokyo Olympics, there were no fans on the property at the Odaiba Marine Park course on Tokyo Bay. But at least the athletes, while they were in Tokyo, all got the news that Edmonton had been given permission to welcome spectators to the Aug. 26 world championships that follows the one ‘regular season’ event in Montreal a week earlier.

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