‘A nightmare’: Champion sprinter Bruny Surin shocked by McGill’s athletics cuts

MONTREAL — Bruny Surin thought it was a hoax.
McGill University’s historic track and field program is a fixture in Canada’s amateur sports landscape so when word flashed across Surin's phone that the school was scrapping it after 125 years, the Olympic champion sprinter didn’t buy it.
"To me, that news is a nightmare,” Surin said in a phone interview Thursday. “To tell you the truth, I saw it first on Instagram and I was like, OK, well, like our friend in the