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USC sprinter Andre De Grasse makes huge strides on and off track

/ STAFF WRITER

USC sprinter Andre De Grasse competes in the 200-meter dash at the NCAA Division I Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark., earlier this spring.

LOS ANGELES – USC sprinter Andre De Grasse is favored to win the 100- and 200-meter dashes at this weekend’s Pac-12 Championships, the latest big meet in a season and future seemingly full of them for the 20-year-old Canadian.

Yet even at the end of a career with Olympic promise, the most important race of De Grasse’s life will almost certainly be his first one.