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Canada finds silver lining
Surin, Bailey missing from 4x100 relay team
But published rumours that Surin was headed here at the last minute to take his place with Canada's world and Olympic championship 4 x 100 relay team turned out to be wrong. And the 'B' team ran second for a Commonwealth Games silver medal.
"What we wanted to do was run faster than the 'A' team did at the Goodwill Games in New York,'' said Glenroy Gilbert.
"But the fact is that we left two of the best sprinters in the world at home. If we put our four best sprinters on the track, nobody can beat us.''
Brad McCuaig of Calgary false-started and had to make sure he didn't disqualify when the gun went again. That took away from the run.
Gilbert ran the second leg, O'Brian Gibbons the third and there was a small problem with the baton handoff to Trevino Betty who left a little early running the anchor.
"I thought we did well without the likes of Donovan Bailey and Bruny Surin,'' said Gibbons of the 38.46 run to finish second to England's 38.20 trip.
"We'll take home a silver. I think we proved we can put a team together that can run with the best in the world.''