Canada National Thread

[NearPup 3,116]

Pavan / Humana-Parades make quick work of Liliana / Baquerizo to advance to the quarterfinals. They are still to lose a set.

[orangeman 2,007]

Lappage lost her opening match.  

 

Both W K1 200 through to the semis.  

[Surlympics 838]

what is with our wrestling team now, they cant even make it out of the first round anymore

 

[NearPup 3,116]

Sure looks like the first ever Olympics without a medal for Canada in women's wrestling and Canada's worst Olympics in wrestling since 1988.

[orangeman 2,007]

1 minute ago, Surlympics said:

what is with our wrestling team now, they cant even make it out of the first round anymore

 

And only 4 total wrestlers to begin with.  

[NearPup 3,116]

Actually wrestling was tied for our longest medal streak in the Olympics, looks like rowing will take sole possession of that title now.

[james89 871]

Watch one of the men win a wrestling medal ?

 

Has something radically changed with the national program recently - even the 2016 result wasnt great but we had qualified more people. 

[Surlympics 838]

yeah so what happened with that lol

[intoronto 5,771]

5 minutes ago, james89 said:

Watch one of the men win a wrestling medal ?

 

Has something radically changed with the national program recently - even the 2016 result wasnt great but we had qualified more people. 

A lot of the talent has aged and no good young talent has risen to replace them. Youth results do not look promising either. So it must be a finding talent issue.

[Surlympics 838]

and can someone also explain why Russia was banned for two years for state sponsored doping yet their whole team who qualified is allowed to compete here in Tokyo ? They didn't have any extra doping controls or vetting process they had to go through. They are dominating certain sports, do you believe it's actual talent or results from doping