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I see no one from US has responded to this.  I've tried to come up with a list of most significant/infamous US moments across Olympic history, not my 5 moments. 
 
1.  Jesse Owens 4 gold medals in 1936.
2.  1980 US Ice Hockey team (although I personally believe the 1960 ice hockey team was a greater sports accomplishment).  
3.  1972 US Basketball team.  
4.  1994 Womens figures skating.
5.  Frank Shorter 1972 Marathon (because it really triggered the running revolution in the US).
 

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Arianna Errigo and Gianmarco Tamberi officially selected as flag bearers for  

This thread popped up for me and since the last post was from a Canadian, I thought I'd pipe in (2 years later). 
 
#1 and #3 - absolutely. 
 
#2 - hate to say it, but yes. Every Canadian (at least those over 30) know the name "Ben Johnson". But that's what made Donovan Bailey even sweeter in 1996. 
 
#4 - I don't know. Of course most Canadians today know Virtue and Moir, they are on commercials and we all love them. Just not sure if this one routine makes the list. There are so many great Canadian figure skaters and figure skating moments in Canada. I grew up with Kurt Browning and Elvis Stojko. Then there's Joannie Rochette's emotional bronze in 2010 after her mother passed away. 
 
#5 - I personally enjoyed this, and the penalty kick comeback makes it an easy highlight reel. But we need time to pass before it makes the the list. 
 
Possible nominations for the list:
 
Many of these are older, so it's just about generations, I guess. 
 
-Crosby's Golden Goal will forever be #1. However, the golds in 2002 by both our men's and women's teams were crazy huge. First gold for the men in 50 years, while the women got revenge for 1998. I was in the streets in Montreal after the 2002 men's win and it was nuts till the early morning. 
 
-Schmirler the Curler winning the first curling gold in 1998. At the time Canada didn't win many golds, even at the WOG. With the men's curling and both hockey teams failing to win that year, this was our pride and joy. 
 
-Sylvie Frechette getting silver in synchro swimming in 1992 after a judge's error. The Brazilian judge accidentally pressed the wrong number (8.7 instead of 9.7) pushing Frechette down to silver. Despite alerting the officials right away it took a year and a half for the IOC to finally give her the gold. To make matters worse, she came home to find her boyfriend who had committed suicide shortly before the Olympics. 
 
-The Dufour-Lapointe sisters getting gold and silver in 2014 in moguls. Their other sister got 12th. 
 
-To stick with Moguls, Alexandre Bilodeau winning Canada's first gold on home soil in their 3rd home Games, with his brother cheering along in the crowd. 
 
-When TV channels would sign off for the night back in the old days () CBC would play Greg Joy's silver medal performance in high jump from 1976. I was actually born after that took place, but I remember as a kid seeing that jump late at night on TV. 
 
-Ross Rebagliati won gold in the first snowboard event in 1998, then had it taken away because he tested positive for marijuana, then got it back because the COC protested that marijuana was not a banned substance. Everyone laughed that of course the snowboarder was a pothead. People my age remember this well since Rebagliati's defence that he must have inhaled secondhand pot at a party became a rallying cry of every teenager for years to come. 
 
 
 
 

Men’s Final Olympic Qualifier Pools
 
Pool A
 South Africa
 Chile
 Tonga
 Mexico
 
Pool B
 Great Britain 
 Canada
 Uganda
 China
 
Pool C
 Spain
 Hong Kong
 Papau New Guinea
 Brazil

https://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/article/canadian-government-boosts-carding-money-for-athletes-ahead-of-paris-olympics/
 
Some good news! JT's government finally doing something right for sport.

Gracenote Medal Predictions for  Canada (partial) 
 
Gold:
Summer McIntosh - Swimming - W 400m Individual Medley Summer McIntosh - Swimming - W 200m Butterfly Marco Arop - Athletics - M 800m Pierce Lepage - Athletics - Decathlon Christa Deguchi - Judo - W 57kg Phil Wizard - Breaking - B-Boys  
Silver:
Katie Vincent - Canoe Sprint - W C-1 200m Canada - Canoe Sprint - W C-2 500m Damian Warner - Athletics - Decathlon Camryn Rogers - Athletics - W Hammer Throw  
Bronze:
Summer McIntosh - Swimming - W 200m Individual Medley Canada - Swimming - W 4x100m Freestyle Relay Canada - Swimming - W 4x100m Medley Relay Maggie Mac Neil - Swimming - W 100m Butterfly Ethan Katzberg - Athletics - M Hammer Throw Sarah Mitton - Athletics - W Shot Put Canada - Athletics - M 4x100m Relay  
Other notes:
No medal for McIntosh in the 400 free No individual medals for De Grasse or Oleksiak No medals in basketball and football

Not yet. And I didn't hear anything about when the schedule will be released! But normally the IHF is fast with it.

Groupe A






 
Groupe B

Uniform Opening Ceremony
 

https://olympic.ca/2024/04/16/team-canada-x-lululemon-athlete-kit-is-designed-to-help-athletes-feel-their-best-at-paris-2024-games/
 
(just waiting for that price tag)

https://olympic.ca/2024/04/16/team-canada-x-lululemon-athlete-kit-is-designed-to-help-athletes-feel-their-best-at-paris-2024-games/
 
(just waiting for that price tag)

Great that they’ll be streaming pretty much everything, but I hope they’ll have separate streams for track and all the various field events at Paris. Most the time on athletics streams they only show replays of field events, it’s rarely ever live. Canada has medal potential in both, and I wouldn’t want to miss anything live.
 
Also hope that Brittany MacLean will be at Paris for swimming.
 
Edit: Just messaged with Devin, the field events will have live streams as well. 

Approaching 100 days to go, my predictions for
Day 1
20:55: Swimming - Women’s 400m Freestyle Final - Summer McIntosh (Silver)
21:37: Swimming - Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final - (Bronze)
 
Day 2
20:45: Swimming - Women’s 100m Butterfly Final - Maggie MacNeil (Silver)
 
Day 3
17:18-17:38: Judo - Women’s 57kg - Christa Deguchi (Gold)
20:30: Swimming - Women’s 400m Individual Medley - Summer McIntosh (Gold)
 
Bronze in the women’s 200m freestyle if she chooses to do the double. She’ll have almost an hour and a half between both so it seems doable (but she’s also probably going to be swimming a rigorous schedule so maybe she’ll skip it)
 
Day 4
17:18-17:38: Judo - Men’s 81kg - Francois Gauthier-Drapeau (Bronze)
17:49-18:09: Judo - Women’s 63kg - Catherine Beauchemin Pinard (Silver)
20:57: Swimming - Women’s 100m Backstroke - Kylie Masse (Bronze)
 
Day 5
20:36: Swimming - Men’s 200m Butterfly Final - Illya Kharun (Silver, behind Milak)
 
Day 6
20:30: Swimming - Women’s 200m Butterfly Final - Summer McIntosh (Gold)
 
Day 8
15:30: Artistic Gymnastics - Men’s Floor - Felix Dolci (Bronze)
20:30: Swimming - Men’s 100m Butterfly Final - Josh Liendo (Bronze)
20:59: Swimming - Women’s 200m Individual Medley - Summer McIntosh (Gold)
21:45: Athletics - Men’s Decathlon - Pierce LePage (Gold)
 
Day 9
19:35: Swimming - Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay Final (Bronze)
20:30: Athletics - Men’s Hammer Throw Final - Ethan Katzberg (Silver)
 
Day 10
21:00/22:05: 3x3 Basketball - Women’s Tournament Medal Matches (Gold)
 
Day 11
20:00: Athletics - Women’s Hammer Throw Final - Camryn Rogers (Bronze)
 
Day 12
20:30: Athletics - Men’s 200m Final - Andre DeGrasse (Silver)
 
Day 13
15:00: Weightlifting - Women’s 59kg - Maude Charron (Bronze)
19:27: Track Cycling - Men’s Omnium - Dylan Bibic (Silver)
19:40: Athletics - Women’s Shot Put Final - Sarah Mitton (Bronze)
19:45: Athletics - Men’s 4x100m Relay Final - Canada (Bronze)
21:00: Beach Volleyball - Women’s Bronze Medal Match - Melissa Humana-Parades/Brandie Wilkerson (Bronze)
21:07: Taekwondo - Women’s 57kg Bronze Medal Match - Skylar Park (Bronze)
 
Day 14
11:00: Basketball - Men’s Bronze Medal Game - Canada (Bronze)
13:50: Canoe Sprint - Women’s C1-200m - Katie Vincent (Bronze)
19:25: Athletics - Men’s 800m Final - Marco Arop (Gold)
21:23: Breaking - B-Boys - Phil Wizard (Gold)
22:34: Boxing - Women’s 75kg Gold Medal Bout - Tammara Thibeault (Gold)
 
 
Left off some other medal chances, think at least one other name/team that I haven’t mentioned will make the podium. Still very optimistic with this prediction considering our best ever result is 24 medals at Tokyo (I picked 30 events for Canada to win medals in) but we have a talent in McIntosh now. 

Guadalajara Challenge | Guadalajara, Mexico
 
Women’s Tournament
Gold-  Esmee Bobner/Zoe Verge-Depre
Silver-  Agatha Bednarczuk/Rebecca Silva
Bronze-  Heather Bansley/Sophie Bukovec 
 
With Bobner/Verge-Depre’s gold medal here, the race for Switzerland’s two Olympic spots is heating up.
 
Did some calculations, Huberli/Brunner now lead with 7560 points (and have a finish to record), Bobner/Verge-Depre are now on 7460 points, and Mader/Verge-Depre stay on 7140 points as they had a bad week losing in the qualies. 
 
Likely will be a battle between them and the Tokyo 2020 bronze medalists Mader/Verge-Depre (Esmee’s sister) as the Olympic Ranking is very tight between the three and Huberli/Brunner still have one finish to record (while the other two are trying to replace their poor finishes). But I wouldn’t pencil in Huberli/Brunner’s qualification just yet. 
 
Men’s Tournament
Gold-  Trevor Crabb/Theodore Brunner
Silver-  Lukas Pfretzschner/Sven Winter 
Bronze-  Evandro Goncalves/Arthur Lanci
 
 Diaz/Alayo continue on their hot streak, but fall just off the podium in 4th. Very surprising podium for Pfretzschner/Winter, if they can sustain this type of form in the upcoming months it’ll see them as one of the pairings in contention for an Olympic spot through the European Continental Olympic Qualification Tournament. 
 
Full Results
 
Short turnaround between tournaments, because up next we have the  Tepic Elite16 from April 17-20!

With just over 100 days to go I decided to do another medal prediction, but this time on a day to day basis. 
 
Day 1 Saturday 27 July (0-1 medals)
Road cycling: Ellen van Dijk (W time trial)
 
Day 2 Sunday 28 July (0-2 medals)
Mountain bike: Puck Pieterse (W cross country)
Swimming: Arno Kamminga or Caspar Corbeau (M 100m breast)
 
Day 3 Monday 29 July (0-1 medals)
Swimming: Tes Schouten (W 100m breast)
 
Day 4 Tuesday 30 July (0-1 medals)
Judo: Joanne van Lieshout (W -63kg)
 
Day 5 Wednesday 31 July (3-5 medals)
Judo: Sanne van Dijke (W -70kg)
Rowing: M4x and W4x
Swimming: Marrit Steenbergen (W 100m free) and Caspar Corbeau (M 200m breast)
 
Day 6 Thursday 1 August (4-7 medals)
Judo: Michael Korrel (M -100kg) and Guusje Steenhuis (W -78kg)
Rowing: M2x and W4-
Sailing: Duetz/Van Aanholt (W skiff) and Van de Werken/Lambriex (M skiff)
Swimming: Tes Schouten (W 200m breast)
 
Day 7 Friday 2 August (2-5 medals)
Archery: Mixed team
BMX racing: Niek Kimmann or Laura Smulders
Judo: Marit Kamps (W +78kg)
Rowing: W2-
Sailing: Luc van Opzeeland (M IQFoil)
 
Day 8 Saturday 3 August (3-5 medals)
Athletics: Mixed 4x400m relay
Road cycling: Mathieu van der Poel (M road race)
Rowing: W1x, M1x and M8-
 
Day 9 Sunday 4 August (0-2 medals)
Equestrian: Dinja van Liere (dressage)
Road cycling: Lorena Wiebes or Demi Vollering (W road race)
 
Day 10 Monday 5 August (0-1 medals)
Athletics: Sifan Hassan (W 5000m?)
 
Day 11 Tuesday 6 August (1-2 medals)
Sailing: Marit Bouwmeester (W dinghy)
Track Cycling: M team sprint
 
Day 12 Wednesday 7 August (0-1 medals)
Sailing: Laila van der Meer / Bjarne Bouwer (mixed multihull)
 
Day 13 Thursday 8 August (2-4 medals)
Athletics: Femke Bol (W 400mH)
Hockey: Men’s team
Swimming: Sharon van Rouwendaal (W 10 km open water)
Track cycling: Hetty van der Wouw (W Keirin)
 
Day 14 Friday 9 August (2-4 medals)
Athletics: Lieke Klaver (W 400m)
Breaking: India Sardjoe (W breaking)
Hockey: Women’s team
Track Cycling: Harrie Lavreysen (M sprint)
 
Day 15 Saturday 10 August (1-3 medals)
Athletics: Women’s 4x400m relay and Abdi Nageeye (M marathon)
Water polo: Women’s team
 
Day 16 Sunday 11 August (1-2 medals)
Athletics: Sifan Hassan (W marathon??)
Track Cycling: Harrie Lavreysen (M keirin)
 
Any day (0-2 medals)
Surprise medals: preferrably Niels Laros (M 1500m) and W handball or volleyball team (what can I say, the more surprising the better)
 
Total prediction (19-47 medals)
+/- 10 golds
+/- 11 silvers
+/- 12 bronze
 
I feel like the day-by-day version made the numbers too optimistic. Some names I'm thinking more like 'one out of these 4 judoka's will probably win a medal', but it shows as a medal chances on 4 days, instead of just 1 expected medal.
Overall I'm a bit more optimistic than the 25 medals I predicted last time, I'll say 30 medals this time!

Pot 1:  
Pot 2:  
Pot 3:  
Pot 4:  
Pot 5:  
Pot 6:  
 
What a weird pots ... why Norway and France not in the same pot? Clearly the two best teams in the world.

Draw
 
Tuesday 18h00 CET
 

Mens and Womens

Heather Bansley/Sophie Bukovec through to the semifinals at the Guadalajara Challenge, including a big straight sets win over #1 seeds Huberli/Brunner in the round of 16!

Quotas in men’s and women’s team sprint in track cycling through the Olympic Rankings!

Michelle Li and Adam Dong/Nyl Yakura have officially qualified for Paris in women’s singles and men’s doubles respectively through the Olympic Rankings!

Trials moving to Toronto at the Pan Am Centre:
 
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/aquatics/canadian-national-swimming-trials-venue-1.7167349

Quota for Josipa Kafadar in women’s -49kg at the Pan American Taekwondo Olympic Qualifier. Great surprise. 
 
Edit: Whoops didn’t see your reply @james89 

Kristine Esebua and Virginie Chenier help secure a quota for Canada in women’s individual archery through the Pan American Continental Qualification Tournament!

Wow, rare win by Air Canada. Wonder if they'll balance it out by having their flight attendants be extra nasty to the passengers.