Favourite Canadian and Olympic Moments at the 2024 Olympics

[Skater Boy 15]

As we come down to the end of the  2024 Paris Olympics we have enjoyed the sweat and tears of athletes all over the world including Canada. They gave it their all. Sometimes it was sweet victory; other times devastating defeat and hopefully the enjoyed the journey.  What are your favourite moments?

[Skater Boy 15]

Since I created this topic I might as well start off.  

 

Seeing Summer McIntosh win 3 gold and a silver in the pool was so exciting to see a 17 yeara old succeed.   Believe it or not seeing Ellie Black comfort the French gymnast who was having a bad olympics was heartwarming.

 

The amazing victory of the 4x100m Men's relay was a Canadian moment when things stood still.  And seeing the pain of defeat in Sarah Mitton and Damien Warner showed the humanity.

 

There were some interesting characters.  Noah Lyles the brash, braggerd American.  The charming and hilarious Brit Tom Daley.  The coolness and class of Katie Ledecky. The spunk of Simone Biles

 

The athletes over came some shortcomings of Paris from the food to the beds to the heat athletes striving to be the best made for special moments.

[NearPup 2,983]

Best individual Canadian moment was the men’s 4x100m relay.

 

I also have a real soft spot for Summer’s win in the 200m IM and Harvey’s foil bronze. And of course Katie Vincent’s win setting the non-boycotted gold and medal records was very special.

 

I’m also still so happy that Deguchi won her gold medal, even though the final itself was not her best fight.

 

A dark horse for one of my favourite moment was actually seeing Philip Kim win gold, it was special to see someone who truly would only get one shot at this step up and perform at their very best. In hindsight Kim had the most dominant performance of any Canadian athlete not named Summer McIntosh or Ethan Katzberg.

 

Also a shout out to the women’s 7s team for doing so much better than expected.

 

Best non-Canadian moments were three moments involving the host nation: the men’s Rugby 7s final, Vaast winning surfing gold at how in Thaiti and Teddy Riner clinching his fifth gold medal.

 

Best non-Canada and non-host moments? Lydia Ko winning gold in women’s golf, Alfred winning gold in the women’s 100m and Sjostrom winning the women’s 100m free. And of course Lopez winning a fifth individual gold medal in a row.

 

The worst moment of the games for me was definitively the 3x3 semi final loss.

Edited August 11 by NearPup