Justin Trudeau wants to make sure American sprinters don’t forget what they were saying about Canada’s relay team back in May.
The Prime Minister took to X (formerly Twitter) after Canada struck gold in the Olympic 4×100-metre men’s relay on Friday to take a little jab at the Americans.
Trudeau wrote “sorry” with a gold-medal emoji above a video of American sprinter Noah Lyles being interviewed after his team beat out runner-up Canada at the World Athletics relays in May.
In the video posted by Ben Steiner of CBC Olympics, U.S. star Noah Lyles was asked by a reporter if he was looking forward to a budding rivalry with Canada heading toward the Olympics.
“Who?” Lyles asked the reporter.
“Canada,” the reporter replied.
“Who?” Lyles said again, prompting laughter from his teammates.
Lyles did not end up running in the Olympic relay after he battled through COVID-19 to win bronze in the 200 metres on Thursday. He had to be helped off the track by medics.
Earlier in the Olympics, Lyles won the 100 metres in a photo finish.
In the relay, the Americans were disqualified after a botched handoff.
“It’s a little disappointing, especially for America, because we wanted to bring it home,” American Christian Coleman said, per NBC. “We knew we had the speed to do it … but we are human beings, too. We’ve been through ups and downs in life. This is just another one of those times where we just got to keep our head down and just keep pushing.”
