Team Canada at the Paris Summer Olympic Games 2024 News

[intoronto 6,393]

The athletics team is doing a high altitude training camp till the games. 

[james89 897]

Looks like Team Canada is including all alternates in the athlete count for a total athlete count of 338. 

[Josh 11,497]

Facts about the Canadian Olympic team. 
 

142 athletes will be men, and 193 athletes will be female, for a total of 316 athletes. 

 

142 athletes have previously competed at an Olympics, 174 athletes will be making their debut, and 17 have competed at the Summer Youth Olympics.  
 

Fay Ebert (skateboarding), will be the youngest female athlete at 14, while Nicolas Zhang (fencing) will be the youngest male athlete at 18. 

 

To absolutely no one’s surprise, our oldest athletes in each gender are in equestrian. Mario Deslauriers is 59, and Jill Irving is 61.

 

Numbers By Province

Ontario - 141

Quebec - 58

British Colombia - 45

Alberta - 34

Nova Scotia - 10

Saskatchewan - 9

Manitoba - 6

New Brunswick - 3

Prince Edward Island - 2 

 

8 athletes have hometowns outside of Canada.

Edited July 17, 2024 by Josh

[intoronto 6,393]

Who are the missing 2?

[intoronto 6,393]

Their excel sheet shows 318 

[intoronto 6,393]

The number is 316

 

Maddy Price and Malachi Murray are not counted in the numbers! That explains the 7 per team

[NearPup 3,488]

Didn't realize until reading the team Canada article today that Daniel Gu is the son of Luan Jujie. That's really cool!

 

I remember seeing a story about Daniel going to the Beijing Olympics as a spectator and being really surprised at how famous his mom was in China. Neat that he's going to go to the Olympics himself as well.

[james89 897]

Just now, NearPup said:

Didn't realize until reading the team Canada article today that Daniel Gu is the son of Luan Jujie. That's really cool!

 

I remember seeing a story about Daniel going to the Beijing Olympics as a spectator and being really surprised at how famous his mom was in China. Neat that he's going to go to the Olympics himself as well.

Yeah - I was delighted to realize that too. I remember CBC did a story about her in the lead up to the 2008 Olympics and it was pretty neat how she was inspired to go back to fencing as a Canadian in 2008. 

[Josh 11,497]

Pierce LePage has withdrawn from the Olympics. 
 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9iZCuSPdlD/?igsh=OHIxeGJjNzZ2OXcw

[Surlympics 1,145]

Dang a back injury