Harry Jerome meet expects ‘rock star’ welcome for headliner De Grasse

The wild, unruly mob descended on Andre De Grasse, not with torches and pitchforks, but with pens and praise.
The Olympic sprinter, whose relatively pedestrian winning time of 10.17 in the men’s 100 metres was enough to spark the fan pandemonium at last year’s Harry Jerome track meet, was engulfed by autograph and selfie-seeking fans young and old at Percy Perry Stadium.
“It was close to a riot mob last year. We were lucky nothing happened,” said meet president Doug Cleme