Your Olympic questions answered: What's up with Andre De Grasse?

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Today's question comes from Ken in Ontario, who asks: How does Andre De Grasse rank in the world?

Short answer: not great. Canada's most celebrated track star is sixth in the world rankings for the men's 200 metres and 77th (!) in the 100m. The latter includes results in the 60m, the most common indoor distance.

The No. 1 guy in both rankings is American Noah Lyles, who's poised for Olympic stardom this summer after his Boltesque sweep of the 100, 200 and 4x100 gold medals at last summer's world championships. While De Grasse, who won Olympic gold in the 200 in 2021, remains the top Canadian in his signature event, he's been surpassed in the 100m rankings by his relay teammates Aaron Brown (No. 27) and Jerome Blake (73), with Brendon Rodney (79) two spots below the two-time Olympic 100m bronze medallist.

De Grasse has won a total of seven individual sprint medals at the Olympics and world championships. He also owns four major relay medals, highlighted by the 4x100 team's stunning gold at the 2022 world championships. But he's largely struggled in his solo events since the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, where he won a relay silver along with his 200m gold and 100m bronze, battling assorted injuries along the way.

At the 2022 worlds in Oregon, De Grasse failed to get past the semifinals in the 100m