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Such as…

I wouldn’t really call it “hate” because I don’t hate her. That being said, I’m not the biggest fan of her either. The only athlete on this list that I hate is Van De Velde. Edit: and Karakurt. To explain on Ana Patricia, 1. most of the time she doesn’t seem she’s trying (you could say the same for Duda, but to a lesser extent) and 2. she rarely if not ever smiles. It’s like playing beach volleyball is a chore for her, she doesn’t look like she’s enjoying it. There’s no reason why she shouldn’t be hammering the majority of her attacks into the sand, and yet she doesn’t.

Well first of all Van De Velde… and Immers (nothing against Immers, just his questionable decision to partner up with him) Then… Noah Lyles - Athletics Sha’Carri Richardson - Athletics Nyjah Huston - Skateboarding Ana Patricia Silva Ramos (not Duda) - Beach Volleyball Taliqua Clancy ** (not Mariafe) - Beach Volleyball Kelly Cheng (not Hughes) - Beach Volleyball Jelena Ostapenko - Tennis Tiago Seyboth Wild - Tennis Beatriz Haddad Maia - Tennis Stefanos Tsitsipas - Tennis Sara Errani - Tennis Ebrar Karakurt - Volleyball (almost forgot about her) Tom Dean - Swimming Alexander Zverev - Tennis Corvee/Labar and Popov/Popov - Badminton (nothing against the athletes…) Bassereau/Lyneel - Beach Volleyball Krou/Gauthier-Rat - Beach Volleyball Chamereau/Viera - Beach Volleyball Corentine Moutet - Tennis ** Fun fact, I started disliking her a couple of days ago when she cursed the ref during their qualifying game at the Gstaad Elite16. Ref couldn’t understand it, but still not cool

through to the semifinals.

Probably Nijjar if anyone. Or Athletics Canada might decline the quota?

Boring game, but at least I got 3 points on my prediction contest.

This Same for anyone who plays against Ostapenko, Seyboth Wild, Errani, Haddad Maia, and the r***** Van De Velde/Immers (and in athletics I’ll be rooting against Lyles and Richardson) Edit: Oh and Cheng/Hughes (nothing against Hughes) winning gold in table tennis isn’t happening, sorry to tell you. If you wished for them to win a medal with one of the Lebrun brothers or their men’s team, then yeah it’s possible.

Another athlete for Briana Scott receives a reallocated quota in women’s 5000m.

Kate Current is now 1st alternate in women’s 1500m. Craig Thorne is now 1st alternate in men’s 110m hurdles.

Grace Konrad is now 4th alternate in women’s 400m.

Sweden is taking both athletes, as confirmed on their Instagram accounts.

Nope In fencing, no one really stands out to me. Speaking of judo, you just made me realize that I forgot about Peter Paltchik

She’s the person before the cutoff??? I thought she was 4th alternate?

Not happening as much as I would love for it to happen, no way 4 athletes (already excluding Lally) quotas get reallocated. Most reallocations are in events where there’s a chance of doubling up, and there’s no conflicts for any of these athletes.

Dressage and eventing teams announced. https://www.instagram.com/p/C9DHFjVuanF/?igsh=MXR3Y3Z2ZWVqaWMyMw==

Actually on further thought, I’d probably change it to Tokyo 2020, with the pandemic and everything. Lack of crowds and COVID 19 really sucked.

Here’s some of the athletes/teams that I’ll be supporting… 90% of them are in athletics, swimming, volleyball, beach volleyball or tennis. men’s volleyball team (Bednorz, Kaczmarek, and Sliwka are my favourites, but I like them all) Anders Mol/Christian Sørum (beach volleyball) Duda Lisboa (beach volleyball, not a big fan of her partner Ana Patricia though) Mariafe Artacho del Solar (beach volleyball, don’t like Clancy…) Anastasija Samoilova/Tina Graudina (beach volleyball) Nils Ehlers/Clemens Wickler (beach volleyball) Michal Bryl/Bartosz Losiak (beach volleyball) Cherif Samba/Ahmed Tijan (beach volleyball) Tanja Huberli/Nina Brunner (beach volleyball) Timo Bol, Patrick Franziska (table tennis) Ma Long (table tennis) Caleb Dressel, Nic Fink, Ryan Murphy, Thomas Heilman (swimming) David Popovici (swimming) Sarah Sjostrom (swimming) Chad Le Clos (swimming) Lani Pallister (swimming) Florent Manaudou, Leon Marchand (swimming) Ruta Meilutye (swimming) Duncan Scott (swimming) Branislav Mitrovic and the entire Serbian men’s waterpolo team Marcos Moneta and Antoine Dupont (rugby sevens) Sonja Greinacher (3x3 basketball) men’s 3x3 basketball team Vincent Fauche, Franck Seguela (3x3 basketball) Worthy de Jong (3x3 basketball) Dejan Majstorovic (3x3 basketball) Stephen Curry (basketball), he plays for my Golden State Warriors Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Karsten Warholm (athletics) Kyron McMaster (athletics) Jakub Vadlejch (athletics Armand Duplantis (athletics) Thea Lafond (athletics) EJ Obiena (athletics) Lindon Victor (athletics) Kevin Mayer (athletics) Eluid Kipchoge (athletics) Anna Hall, Tara Davis, Parker Valby (athletics, for Valby it’s one reason and one reason only) Julien Alfred (athletics) Marie Josee Ta-Lou (athletics) Nicola Olyslagers (athletics) Alicia Schmidt (athletics, same reason as above) Nafi Thiam (athletics) Agate Caune (athletics) Miltiadis Tentoglou (athletics) Gabriel Medina, Joao Chianca (surfing) Erin Routliffe (tennis) PV Sindu (badminton) Viktor Axelsen (badminton) Agniezska Korneluk, Martya Lukasik (volleyball) Gyorgy Grozer (volleyball) Rok Mozic (volleyball) Honorato Henrique, Gabi Guimares, Ana Cristina, Flavio Gulaberto (volleyball) Daniele Lavia, Simone Giannelli (volleyball) Jean Patry, Trevor Clevenot (volleyball) Paula Badosa, Rafael Nadal (tennis) Emma Raducanu (tennis) Novak Djokovic (tennis) (RUS) Daniil Medvedev (tennis) Casper Ruud (tennis) Hubert Hurkacz (tennis) Dominic Thiem (tennis) Matteo Berrettini (tennis) and of course… the entire delegation

Well actually, there’s so many that I can’t list them all off the top of my head…. If I do, by the time I’m actually finished listing them I’d probably age around 50 years

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1. 7. First Olympics for me was Vancouver 2010 when I was 4 years old, my dad watched the gold medal match in men’s hockey and I watched it with him, obviously I wouldn’t remember anything from it as it was 14 years ago. First Olympics I actually remember watching was Sochi 2014. All three of those Olympics I only watched a few events at most. First time I full on started watching everything was back during Rio 2016. 2. Favourite was Vancouver 2010 (I’ve watched a LOT of replays since then, men’s hockey gold medal match is my main highlight, but there was a lot of good events), and least favourite was Beijing 2022, given it was a complete and utter flop from a Canadian perspective with only 4 gold medals (and two of them were lucky, even though Kingsbury got robbed in men’s moguls)

Dutch Tournament, the last sitting volleyball tournament before the Paralympics started yesterday. Not sure if anyone is interested enough to watch it (I’d say I’m probably the biggest sitting volleyball fan on here by a mile ) but in case anyone wants to here’s a link for live streaming. https://youtube.com/@dutchtournament3998?si=x5H7A_ZJI7MXkaFe

If we’re talking about weightlifting, surely Olivia Reeves will also be a pretty heavy gold medal favourite in women’s 71kg? That being said I’m not much of a weightlifting expert, so I could be completely wrong.

has a team size of 315 athletes, not including potential reallocations in athletics. We add an athlete our Rio 2016 total, but are well down on the 381 athletes we sent to Tokyo, despite us having a much stronger team across the boards (IMO) in the majority of sports. Although with the decrease in quotas that was sort of to be expected. Overall, it’s been a pretty disappointing qualification period for Canada, lots of near misses (Kelly Fitzsimmons in modern pentathlon, men’s archery team at the Pan Am Games, women’s volleyball team, and men’s rugby sevens team at the North America Olympic Qualifier), and some of the favourites to qualify either didn’t or just barely did (Erin Brooks in surfing, women’s synchro 3m platform, women’s basketball team, men’s basketball team, women’s 3x3 team, men’s volleyball team, women’s waterpolo). Considering that Russia has been banned in most sports, makes our numbers even worse. As for sports in general, badminton, rowing, and to a lesser extent surfing have been disappointing, while fencing and to a lesser extent cycling and shooting have been pleasant surprises. Canada will making it’s Olympic debut in you know what (I refuse to say the name ), 3x3 basketball, surfing, and mixed team judo. We also won’t be present in modern pentathlon, field hockey, sport climbing, and rhythmic gymnastics. Archery - 1 M / 1 W Artistic Swimming - 0 M / 8 W Athletics - 23 M / 25 W Badminton - 3 M / 1 W Basketball - 12 M / 16 W Boxing - 1 M / 1 W Breaking - 1 M / 0 W Canoeing - 6 M / 9 W Cycling - 11 M / 11 W Diving - 2 M / 3 W Equestrian - 1 M / 2 W Fencing - 7 M / 5 W Football - 0 M / 18 W Golf - 2 M / 2 W Gymnastics - 5 M / 6 W Judo - 3 M / 4 W Rowing - 0 M / 11 W Rugby Sevens - 0 M / 12 W Sailing - 2 M / 4 W Shooting - 2 M / 1 W Surfing- 0 M / 1 W Skateboarding - 3 M / 1 W Swimming - 12 M / 17 W Table Tennis - 3 M / 1 W Taekwondo - 0 M / 2 W Tennis - 2 M / 3 W Triathlon - 2 M / 1 W Volleyball - 14 M / 4 W Water Polo - 0 M / 13 W Weightlifting - 1 M / 1 W Wrestling - 2 M / 4 W Total - 120 M / 189 W Full Breakdown

Schedule/Results Live Streaming Day 1 Canadian Olympic Schedule (start time, PST/EST) TBD= hasn’t been decided yet TBD= hasn’t advanced but could potentially or might compete depending on the scheduling. July 27 12:30 AM/3:30 AM: Equestrian - Eventing Team/Individual Dressage - Jessica Phoenix, Karl Slezak, Michael Winter 1:00 AM/4:00 AM: Fencing - Women’s Epee Table of 64 - Ruien Xiao 1:10 AM/4:10 AM: Badminton - Men’s Doubles Group A - Adam Dong/Nyl Yakura v. (CHN) Liang Wei Keng/Wang Chang 1:25 AM/4:25 AM: Fencing - Men’s Sabre Table of 64 - Francois Cauchon v. (ARG) Pascual Di Tella 1:30 AM/4:30 AM: Shooting - Men’s 10m Air Pistol Qualification - Michele Esercitato 2:00 AM/5:00 AM: Artistic Gymnastics - Men’s Team Qualification Subdivision 1 - Felix Dolci, Rene Cournoyer, Zachary Clay, William Emard, Samuel Zakutney 2:00 AM/5:00 AM: Artistic Gymnastics - Men’s All-Around Qualification Subdivision 1 - Felix Dolci, Rene Cournoyer, Samuel Zakutney 2:00 AM/5:00 AM: Artistic Gymnastics - Men’s Parallel Bars Qualification Subdivision 1 - Felix Dolci, Rene Cournoyer, Samuel Zakutney, Zachary Clay, William Emard 2:00 AM/5:00 AM: Artistic Gymnastics - Men’s Vault Qualification Subdivision 1 - Felix Dolci, Rene Cournoyer, Samuel Zakutney, Zachary Clay, William Emard 2:00 AM/5:00 AM: Artistic Gymnastics - Men’s Horizontal Bar Qualification Subdivision 1 - Felix Dolci, Rene Cournoyer, Samuel Zakutney, Zachary Clay, William Emard 2:00 AM/5:00 AM: Artistic Gymnastics - Men’s Rings Qualification Subdivision 1 - Felix Dolci, Rene Cournoyer, Samuel Zakutney, Zachary Clay, William Emard 2:00 AM/5:00 AM: Artistic Gymnastics - Men’s Pommel Horse Qualification Subdivision 1 - Felix Dolci, Rene Cournoyer, Samuel Zakutney, Zachary Clay, William Emard 2:00 AM/5:00 AM: Artistic Gymnastics - Men’s Floor Qualification Subdivision 1 - Felix Dolci, Rene Cournoyer, Samuel Zakutney, Zachary Clay, William Emard 2:05 AM/5:05 AM: Swimming - Women’s 100m Butterfly Heat 3 - Maggie MacNeil 2:08 AM/5:08 AM: Swimming - Women’s 100m Butterfly Heat 4 - Rebecca Smith 2:18 AM/5:18 AM: Swimming - Women’s 400m Freestyle Heat 2 - Summer McIntosh 3:00 AM/6:00 AM: Tennis - Men’s Singles/Women’s Singles/Men’s Doubles Round 1 - TBD 3:00 AM/6:00 AM: Skateboarding - Men’s Street Prelims - Cordano Russell, Ryan Decenzo, Matt Berger 3:05 AM/6:05 AM: Fencing - Women’s Epee Table of 32 - Ruien Xiao v. (BRA) Nathalie Moellhausen 3:20 AM/6:20 AM: Swimming - Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Heat 2 - TBD 3:30 AM/6:30 AM: Fencing - Men’s Sabre Table of 32 - Shaul Gordon v. (ITA) Luigi Samele 3:31 AM/6:31 AM: Swimming - Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Heats - TBD 3:50 AM/6:50 AM: Rowing - Women’s Lightweight Double Sculls Heats - Jill Moffatt/Jenny Casson 4:45 AM/7:45 AM: Fencing - Men’s Sabre Table of 32 - Shaul Gordon v. (HUN) Aron Szilagyi 5:10 AM/8:10 AM: Fencing - Women’s Epee Table of 16 - TBD 5:30 AM/8:30 AM: Cycling - Women’s Individual Time Trial Final - Olivia Baril 6:00 AM/9:00 AM: Fencing - Men’s Sabre Table of 16 6:00 AM/9:00 AM: Canoe Slalom - Men’s C1 Heats 1st Run - Alex Baldoni 6:50 AM/9:50 AM: Fencing - Women’s Sabre Quarterfinals - TBD 7:00 AM/10:00 AM: Canoe Slalom -Women’s K1 Heats 1st Run - Lois Betteridge 7:15 AM/10:15 AM: Fencing - Men’s Sabre Quarterfinals - TBD 7:32 AM/10:32 AM: Cycling - Men’s Individual Time Trial Final - Derek Gee 8:00 AM/11:00 AM: Skateboarding - Men’s Street Final - TBD 8:10 AM/11:10 AM: Canoe Slalom - Men’s C1 Heats 2nd Run - Alex Baldoni 9:10 AM/12:10 AM: Canoe Slalom - Women’s K1 Heats 2nd Run - Lois Betteridge 10:00 AM/1:00 PM: Fencing - Women’s Epee Semifinals - TBD 10:50 AM/1:50 PM: Fencing - Men’s Sabre Semifinals - TBD 11:00 AM/2:00 PM: Table Tennis - Men’s/Women’s Singles Round of 64 - TBD 11:30 AM/2:30 PM: Swimming - Women’s 100m Butterfly Semifinals - TBD 11:52 AM/2:52 PM: Swimming - Women’s 400m Freestyle Final - TBD 12:34 PM/3:34 PM: Swimming - Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final - TBD 12:44 PM/3:44 PM: Swimming - Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final - TBD 11:40 AM & 12:30 PM/2:40 PM & 3:30 PM: Fencing - Women’s Epee Bronze/Gold Medal Bouts - TBD 12:00 PM/3:00 PM: Basketball - Men’s Tournament Group A - Canada v. Greece 12:05 PM & 12:55 PM/3:05 PM & 3:55 PM: Fencing - Men’s Sabre Bronze/Gold Medal Bouts - TBD 12:36 PM/3:36 PM: Boxing - Men’s 63.5kg Preliminary Round - TBD 1:00 PM/4:00 PM: Beach Volleyball - Women’s Tournament Pool Play - Bansley/Bukovec v. (USA) Kloth/Nuss 2:48 PM/5:48 PM: Surfing - Women’s Round 1 Heat 3 - Sanoa Olin v. (ISR) Anat Lelior and (AUS) Tyler Wright TBD: Tennis - Women’s Singles Round of 64 - Bianca Andresscu v. (DEN) Clara Tauson TBD: Tennis - Women’s Singles Round of 64 - Leylah Fernandez v. (CZE) Karolina Muchova TBD: Tennis - Men’s Singles Round of 64 - Felix Auger-Aliassime v. (USA) Marcos Giron TBD: Tennis - Women’s Doubles Round of 32 - Gaby Dabrowski/Leylah Fernandez v. (FRA) Dianne Perry/Clara Burel Medal Events Cycling - Men’s Time Trial Final Cycling - Women’s Time Trial Final Diving - Women’s 3m Synchro Springboard Final Fencing - Women’s Epee Gold/Bronze Medal Bouts Fencing - Men’s Sabre Gold/Bronze Medal Bouts Judo - Women’s 48kg Gold/Bronze Medal Contests Judo - Men’s 60kg Gold/Bronze Medal Contests Shooting - 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team Gold/Bronze Medal Matches Rugby Sevens - Men’s Gold/Bronze Medal Matches Skateboarding - Men’s Street Final Swimming - Men’s 400m Freestyle Final Swimming - Women’s 400m Freestyle Final Swimming - Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final Swimming - Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final Canadian Olympic Medal Chances TBD Canadian Day-By-Day Olympic Medal Overview Sport - Event - G Medal 0 G | 0 S | 0 B = 0 T (N/A on the overall medal table)

Other than breaking, which I’ll probably only be watching during the medal rounds (but I might decide to skip it entirely), artistic swimming, golf, rhythmic gymnastics, and equestrian (dressage and eventing at least) Some events/sports I’ll only be watching the closing stages of, like modern pentathlon (shooting and laser run), and the end of the road race.