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he last time Bruny Surin
raced his daughter, he
wound up on crutches.
It had become a family tradi-
tion for Surin bragging rights.
During every Christmas vacation
in Florida, the Olympic gold med-
alist would line up against his
daughter Kat for a 50-metre race.
“I think the bet was, my
daughter was calling me old, and
I said, ‘You cannot call me old un-
til you can beat me,’ ” Surin said
with a laugh.
Their last race was in 2015 on
the blue track near the Boca
Raton condo Surin used to own.
Surin’s older daughter, Kimber-
ley, who played tennis at Penn
State, was both the starter and
videographer. Bruny was first off
the line, but five strides in he
hobbled to a stop with an
Achilles injury. Kat sprinted
down the track laughing, her
arms spread wide.
“I said ‘This is it. No more run-
ning for me,’ ” Bruny said.
“I think, the first year, he defi-
nitely beat me by a lot. It wasn’t
even close,” Kat recalled. “But we
started [in 2015] and he ran like
10 metres, and then I think he
pulled everything honestly.”
Friendly family rivalry aside,
Kat first took up track because of
a desire to be like her dad. Bruny
still shares the Canadian record
in the 100 metres with Donovan
Bailey (9.84), and ran on the
gold-medal relay team at the1996 Atlanta Olympics.
It could be Kat’s turn to wear
Canada’s colours soon. The 23-
year-old won bronze in the 400
metres at the Canadian cham-
pionships on Saturday, putting
her in the mix for a spot on the
4x400-metre relay for the world
championships that begin Sept.
28 in Qatar.
“Her ultimate goal is to run at
the Olympics,” Bruny said. “For
now, until she has been named to
the team, I don’t want to jump
the gun, there’s always some grey
zone. But I think she deserves to
be on the team. That would be
something very special.”
Kat’s time of 52.43 seconds was
a personal best, and came after
several seasons of frustrating
injuries for the 5-foot-10 sprinter.The Saint-Jérôme, Que., native
just graduated from the Univ-
ersity of Connecticut and,
healthy through her senior sea-
son, she won the 400 metres at
both the indoor and outdoor
American Athletic Conference
championships.
Saturday night, Bruny and
Kat’s mom, Bianelle, were in the
VIP section at Claude Robillard
Stadium for the race. Bruny was
nervous, but that was nothing
new.
“When he gets in that state, he
doesn’t want people to bother
him because he’s so stressed, so
he puts on headphones, goes in a
little corner and he just watches
us,” Kat said.
The nerves, Bruny said, came
after watching his daughterbattle injuries the previous three
seasons.
“I was hoping to just go out-
side [to watch] and just stay by
myself, I don’t like to talk while
my daughter is going to run, I just
want to be there, and be in the
moment,” he said. “But of course
it’s impossible, people want to
talk to me, asking ‘What do I
think?’ and everything.
“I was like ‘Guys, can I have a
moment?’ My ideal scenario
would just to be alone and to be
in the moment.”
The elder Surin said he doesn’t
yell during races. But the 52-year-
old does talk to himself.
“I was saying ‘It’s time to make
a move, it’s time to make a
move,’ ” he said.
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