The Edmonton runner captured Canada’s first-ever gold medal in the 800 meters after a dominant second lap.
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36 Comments
dude's hung.
Majestic .. good word
The Canadian Rudisha!😮
I hope this isn’t taken the wrong way, but those two lead men have such beautiful complexions ♥️
Congratulations to my fellow Canadian!!
Canada is an African country?!
Letsss goooo 🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦
Go Canada go ❤
If he's Canadian, I'm an astronaut
Marco ran the perfect race. Waited for his moment and he throttled that last lap
Arop is Atop!!! 🇨🇦🥇🥇🥇
Beautiful run!! Great job Arop!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
What a beautiful thing to watch. Such a fluid stride.
Wow the commentators are definitely calling for their country which is England not Canada! Here we are thinking they would be fair working for a Canadian network!
Marco, ur the world's best at the sport u chose. I just gotta wonder, being the utterly ridiculous specimen ur, what other sports u could have ruled.
Beautifully run race , reminds you of Peter Snell , with his dominate performance , !
Arop , Canada's Peter Snell , Canadians are all proud of your accomplishment !
Will Arop , be the next Heckium El Geroge , or Coe , ?
Arop destroyed that field!! He almost looked like he was just out for a jog.
Dam right that’s how y do it start from back and then yes 👏 pass at the end that’s what I just did with my race the other day in my race to ❤🥇🥇🥇🏆🎖🏅🍾🍾❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦love this cheers thank y congratulations 🥳 cheers y deserve it this
A great day for Canadians to be Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦❤🫶 🏃♂️
Smooth
I will never tire of watching this!🇨🇦🇨🇦
Sports🌐
Chess match sprinting 🌐😁
🇨🇦😁
Arop looks like a god out there
Great run, Arop.
Half way through, everyone's face was starting to change while he seemed to just be pacing himself. What a difference from last year's performance! Great strategy by him and his coaches. Plus he's one hell of an athlete.
Impressive. Good work Marco.
Y.E.G.!!!!
just awesome win wow
Pure joy seeing Arop run.
MARCO!!!!! What an awesome race to watch, so exciting. When I saw your stride turnover increase I was screaming HE'S GONNA WIN, HE'S GONNA WIN. Your long legs covered more ground + the tournament over rate. Just so thrilling, I'm so happy for you. CONGRATULATIONS MARCO !!!!!!
Bravo Arop!!!
Arop has 1/2 stride over everyone steps with his longer legs 😂
If Canada's immigration policy targeted East Africans (Ethiopians, Kenyans, Ugandans, South Sudanese in particular) and Jamaican people more, our track team would be so much better in the short and long distances. I'm an Ethiopian Canadian myself and I was a good 5K and 10K runner in high-school by Canadian standards, but I'd be bang average if I had gone to an Ethiopian high school. Arop and Ahmed should represent us well in future middle and long distance races.