De Grasse blown to wind-aided 100m win in 9.69 seconds


IAAF Athletics Diamond League - Men's 100m - Stockholm Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden - June 18, 2017 - Andre De Grasse (C) of Canada and Ben Youssef Meite (R) of Ivory Coast compete. TT News Agency/Anders Wiklund via REUTERS

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Canada's Andre De Grasse was blown to an emphatic and remarkably swift 100 metres win in a wind-assisted 9.69 seconds at the Diamond League meeting in Stockholm on Sunday.

De Grasse, who may offer the biggest threat to Usain Bolt in the Jamaican's final major meeting at the world championships in August, flew down the Olympic Stadium track to hammer the opposition in a race which saw five men dip under 10 seconds.

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