diff --git a/benchmarks/tracing_trace.rb b/benchmarks/tracing_trace.rb
index 0050471aeef..ec9420b4aa7 100644
--- a/benchmarks/tracing_trace.rb
+++ b/benchmarks/tracing_trace.rb
@@ -5,13 +5,7 @@
 
 require 'benchmark/ips'
 require 'open3'
-
-begin
-  require 'datadog'
-rescue LoadError # TODO: Remove when ddtrace 2.0 is merged to master
-  # This is required to run benchmarks against ddtrace 1.x.
-  require 'ddtrace'
-end
+require 'datadog'
 
 class TracingTraceBenchmark
   module NoopWriter