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OTTAWA — Canada pulled out out of next week's Pan American Race Walking Cup in Ecuador due to concerns about COVID-19, erasing the final international opportunity Mathieu Bilodeau had to qualify for . . .

OTTAWA — Canada pulled out out of next week's Pan American Race Walking Cup in Ecuador due to concerns about COVID-19, erasing the final international opportunity Mathieu Bilodeau had to qualify for . . .

Canada latest nation to withdraw from World Athletics Relays due to COVID-19 Monday, 26 April 2021 Athletics Canada has confirmed its withdrawal from the 2021 World Athletics Relays, with it being the latest nation to pull out of the event in Chorzów in Poland. Scheduled to take place on May 1 and 2, Canada joins Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Australia in missing the event, while the United States reportedly has also withdrawn, but USA Track and Field has not confirmed this. Athletics Canada made the decision in light of the COVID-19 situation in Poland, as well as a rise in cases in Can...

Lori Ewing April 25, 2021 - 9:26 AM Athletics Canada faces another huge challenge in getting its relay teams to the starting line at the Tokyo Olympics this summer. After the global pandemic erased most of the 2020 season, Canada had pinned its qualifying hopes on next week's World Athletics Relays in Silesia, Poland, but announced Saturday night it was withdrawing due to surging COVID-19 cases in that country. Canada, which won bronze in the men's 4x100-metre relay at the Rio Games, has only qualified the women's 4x400 for Tokyo. That was by virtue of its eighth-p...