ExpandI don't think the triathlon/duathlon is confirmed yet, or is it? Does anyone know?
Apparently Friday, and if they can't swim in the Seine, it'll be a duathlon
Not kidding
ExpandSince the program is different relative to 2020, I usually like to compare to which events have been completed in both editions.
Using the current completed events, Canada in 2020 would have had 1G-3S-3B. We are down one medal. Unsurprisingly, swimming is behind. So is judo, but they could go even once the program is completed.
I had us projected for 27-28, and to have five at this point... so, I think having six is just peachy
ExpandQuite a good day overall I would say.
Dissapointing day in judo and in volleyball (though, tbh, our men's volleyball is sort of a hot mess and probably lucky just to qualify xD ), otherwise I think everything was at or above expectations.
The men looked really good in VNL... but a lot of teams were treating VNL like an Olympics pre-season, so, yeah, a bit misleading
Again, based on Qualifying scores, going into the last apparatus I have
US +6.93
Italy +2.6
Brazil +1.1
GB +0.73
Canada
China -1.53
Romania -2.47
Japan -3.0
Italy and GB are on beam, so nightmares can happen
ExpandBut GB doing better on bars....I can't compute anymore math
That puts them right back in it, massive improvement over qualifying. Looks like GB and Brazil have the inside line on bronze
Canada will need to make up at least a point
Now ahead of China
Based on qualifying scores for the remaining apparatus, Canada is within .77 of Brazil and .20 of China and well ahead of Japan, GB and Romania
Crazier things have happened
ExpandMeanwhile, Kayla Sanchez qualified 10th in 53.67
Suddenly back in form for the first time since switching to the Philippines.
Don't begrudge her, she was a good soldier and sacrificed her individual programs a lot for the relays... but her departure sure left a huge hole on our relays
Triathlon has been delayed until at least Wednesday, cause the Seine is too gross to swim in
ExpandHadn't realized this but it looks like only Mcintosh + Liendo (Maybe) are the only ones that could medal in swimming. Swimming Canada needs to find new talent ASAP.
Kharun maybe, but he wasn't developed here regardless
Yeah, the cupboard is a little bare
Getting a chance to sit down and really watch the basketball game in full... woof. That was a brutal effort.
Not sure anyone looked good out there. Maybe Swords. The starters were especially bad.
Shocker!
I was sure we were toast when France got their second try. Seemed like the dam had broke.
Shows what I know
STOP THE COUNT! 
ExpandEndlessly? I've said it twice in like 4 days. I know it's not the same, but it looks odd. Perception is everything. It doesn't take 2 years to confirm a doping test. I'm not even mad at Canada's punishment, I'm just pointing out the corruption and overall double standards.
Well, if this involved a medal after the competition and one side was determined to drag it out and act in bad faith at every turn, I'm sure we could drag it out after the fact with CAS for a year plus too
ExpandYay!
...but this is also a pretty anticlimactic way to win our first gold xD
Sadly, didn't seem like it could end either way. The way the Korean was throwing false attacks, the only way it was going to end was with her DQ'd for that or DeGuchi for passivity
ExpandI know it's different governing bodies, but it's crazy to me that it took over 2 years to officially DQ the Russian figure skater who actually tested positive at the time (and they still didn't dq her team, like they do with every other team), yet it took like 5 hours to hand down this decision. Not to mention the Chinese dopers. Different rules for big/small countries.
I know you like to hammer on this endlessly, and probably don't care, but...
The Valieva case was drastically different. The international fed and WADA had to appeal to CAS and go through all that to get her DQ'd because the test was a domestic event... all the while Russia dragged their feet and obsfucated and RUSADA giving her a pass
If the test had happened at the Olympics, it would have been a different story
Looking at it relative to apparatus and qualifying scores, looks like we're in 7th, and could maybe catch Italy for 6th
Just getting to the final was a huge win
ExpandWouldn’t call it amazing still (I mean we only won one medal… and another contender flopped), but definitely good.
I seem to care about the losses (Guo in fencing/loss to New Zealand in women’s rugby sevens somewhat, volleyball, and MacNeil in swimming) more than the rest of you it seems
Only way I’m not, is if we win an unusually high amount of medals in a day.
We can only expect so high a conversion rate. Everyone else in the world is trying to win too. There will be surprises, there will be disappointments... and in many ways, the disappointments make the surprises that much better!
Don't know a lot about fencing... but Harvey has been on the backfoot the whole time.
Knox and Acevado certainly upped their game for the final. That's about as good a time as we could have asked for.
Oh wow... we snuck through to the team final in gymnatics!
Turkey and Spain had absolute nightmares on their last rotations
Swim Canada needs to take a hard look at what they've done to the women's sprint program. Haven't had any new stars emerge this cycle, we're getting kinda long in the tooth, and we went from 4 swimmers with the A standard, to none
McIntosh's spectacular rise has distracted from the rest of the program kinda getting stuck in neutral
Not looking good for the gymnasts with one rotation left
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