Canada’s Marco Arop met his middle-distance hero — now, he wants to surpass him
There’s that old adage, never meet your heroes. Except when Canadian middle-distance runner Marco Arop actually did, it was everything he could have imagined. And maybe more. Last August in Budapest, after Arop’s breakthrough performance to become the first Canadian to win world championship 800-metre gold, the Edmonton runner was getting ready for the medal ceremony. …