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Former Duke track star Maddy Price headed to her second Olympics

Price and her fellow Canadians get the chance to avenge their fourth-place finish from the Tokyo Games in the 4×400-meter relay.

For the second straight Games, former Blue Devil Maddy Price is headed to the Olympics.

Price made the women’s 4×400-meter relay team for her home country of Canada on Wednesday, and she also made the provisional 400-meter squad.

In Tokyo three summers ago, Price and her fellow Canadians finished fourth in the 4×400. They missed out on a medal by 0.6 seconds, narrowly beaten out by Jamaica.

“We wanted to bring home a medal for Canada and ourselves,” Price said after she and her team came within inches of the country’s first medal in the event since 1984. “We’ll be back.”

Price spent four years with the Blue Devils from 2014-18, and she made the Indoor First Team All-American squad in the same event as a freshman in 2015. Duke finished sixth at the NCAA Indoor Championships that season. She made four All-ACC teams and two other Second Team All-ACC rosters during her stint in Durham.