DARTMOUTH -- Dartmouth paddler Connor Fitzpatrick has punched his ticket to the Olympic Games in Tokyo after a nail-biting qualifying race on Wednesday. Fitzpatrick, 22, needed to win two races to make the Canadian Olympic canoe team. He won the first in British Columbia a month ago. However, Wednesday’s race was a close call. “It was a really hard grind. The wind picked up in the last 250 metres and you kind of just have to put your foot down and put every last stroke into it and do what you can do,” says Fitzpatrick of the Senobe Aquatic Club in Dartmouth. “That was all I did and it was enough to get the job done.”