Canada National Thread

[intoronto 6,402]

From Swimswam:

 

Update: Katerine Savard has confirmed on Instagram that she won’t swim the final and that the relay will be Oleksiak, McIntosh, Sanchez, and Smith.

 

 

[james89 898]

9 minutes ago, intoronto said:

That would be my pick too.

 

If Smith can repeat her performance and Sanchez can get into 1:56... then there is a good chance of a medal

They need drop 7.17 seconds to beat the national record. Pickrem was 1:59.82 and Oleksiak was 1:54.7 yesterday from a flat start so that's over 5 seconds right there. 

 

It'll be interesting see what subs China does - they didnt do any for the 4x100m.

[james89 898]

7 minutes ago, intoronto said:

From Swimswam:

 

Update: Katerine Savard has confirmed on Instagram that she won’t swim the final and that the relay will be Oleksiak, McIntosh, Sanchez, and Smith.

 

 

In the same Instagram story Savard said she would be swimming the prelims of the mixed medley in the fly.

[tirtha22 238]

Margaret Macneil was born in China and was adopted by a Canadian couple due to China's one child policy. Margaret won gold medal in Women's butterfly 100 m swimming beating Chinese competitor Zhang Yufei by 0.05 second. What a story!

 

[NearPup 3,494]

We start the day with a fourth place in the very first finals (men’s pair in rowing).

[NearPup 3,494]

Filmer and Jannsens win bronze.

[Surlympics 1,173]

shocker russian dopers come out of no where to win silver

[Canada4thewin 90]

20 minutes ago, Surlympics said:

shocker russian dopers come out of no where to win silver

I tought the Russians competing were clean   maybe i am naive lol 

[Surlympics 1,173]

explain how they came out of no where to win a medal lol 

[NearPup 3,494]

Just now, Surlympics said:

explain how they came out of no where to win a medal lol 

There’s not exactly been a lot of rowing competitions in rowing over the past year and a half for reasons.