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Maggie Coles-Lyster also won a bronze in the women’s elimination race. If this is any indication of future success, we could be winning a couple of medals come the 2024 Olympics. Our track cycling team has only been improving.

Torquay Elite16 Medal Matches On the men’s side, Italy’s Carambula/Rangheri🇮🇹 defeat Lotman/Evans🇺🇸 in straight sets (21-15, 2-16) to win the bronze medal at the final Elite16 event of the season in Torquay, Australia. 8 monster blocks for Rangheri, an insane match stat for you. In the gold medal match, Frances’s Krou/Gautier Rat 🇫🇷 defeat home-crowd favorite Australia‘s Hodges/Schubert🇦🇺 (22-20, 23-21). Krou/Gauthier Rat would be firm favorites for the France beach volleyball Olympic quota should they keep their form (A bit of a suprise to see the Australian team make it this far, but then again most teams ended their season early to focus on the next season, big Olympic qualification period coming up) Meanwhile on the women’s side, Clancy/Mariafe 🇦🇺 delight the home crowd coming back from down a set to defeat American rising stars Kloth/Nuss 🇺🇸 in three sets (14-21, 21-19, 15-13), with both teams aiming to qualify for the 2024 Olympics. Taliqua Clancy led all scorers with 27 points. In the gold medal match, Americans Hughes/Cheng 🇺🇸 defeat another American duo Scoles/Flint 🇺🇸 (21-17, 21-11) to continue their insane run of form, winning three tournaments in a row without dropping a single set (AVP Huntington Beach, FIVB Torquay Challenge, FIVB Torquay Elite16)

Cynthia Appiah steps onto her second World Cup monobob podium of the season claiming bronze in Park City, Utah. She won the silver medal behind fellow Canadian Bianca Ribi at the first World Cup of the season in Whistler, British Colombia. She finished with a cumulative time of 1:43.26 seconds, 0.33 behind American gold medalist Kailie Humphries (2022 Women’s Monobob Olympic Champion, event made it’s debut there) and 0.02 behind German silver medalist Lisa Buckwitz.

Summer McIntosh!! An incredible 2022 season she’s been having as she lowers the Americas record in the women’s 400IM at the Us Open with a time of 4:28:61. She was 13 seconds ahead of the second place finisher. Kathryn Hanzle finishes in third, with a time of 4:46.56. Edit: 50m pool.

With her second run she was the 18th fastest, yeah that’s not going to cut it.

Mirela Rahneva destroys the track record on route to winning the second* #BMWIBSF World Cup race of the season in Park City, Utah. Defeated all four athletes who finished ahead of her at the Beijing Olympics (Hermann [GER]: 4th at the 2022 Olympics & WC 2nd, Bos [NED]: 3rd at the 2022 Olympics & WC 7th, Narracott [AUS]: 2nd at the 2022 Olympics & WC 18th, and Neise [GER] (1st at the 2022 Olympics & WC 6th)

Auger-Aliassime is now perfect in 2022 team competitions!! (Davis Cup, ATP Cup, Laver Cup)

Won't* You mean? That sucks though, do you know if he ruled out competing at the 2024 CAT Championships?

2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships- Men’s Final The final is set, with host-nation Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 taking on reining Paralympic Champions Iran 🇮🇷 with a Paris 2024 Paralympics men’s sitting volleyball quota up for grabs to whoever wins this gold medal match. Egypt 🇪🇬 will battle Brazil 🇧🇷 in the bronze medal match

2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships- Women’s Semifinals 🇨🇦 v. 🇸🇮 🇺🇸 v. 🇧🇷 Gold medalists will book their NOC a ticket in women’s sitting volleyball at the 2024 Paralympics, in Paris, France!

I don’t watch too much artistic gymnastics, but Canada has a chance of qualifying for the 2024 Olympics here. Right?

Here’s how I put it: In my mind, breaking isn’t a sport. It is an art. There is no concrete evidence to ever suggest one dancer is better than another. There is no set technique for the B-Boys/B-Girls to follow, and there is no definition of a “good dancer”.

Canada’s Phil Wizard wins gold at the 2022 WDSF Breaking World Championships, a great chance for him to win a medal at the Olympics in a sport that will be making it’s debut. This “sport” doesn’t deserve to be in the Olympics though anyways, so I don’t care, and come the 2024 Olympics I probably won’t be watching.

Something I DEFINITELY did not expect. Brandie/MHP would obviously be the best chance at a medal for Team Canada, but with how her and Sophie were doing this season I’m kind of shocked.

Was one of my favourite winter athletes. Am sad to see her go, but glad she can retire with an excellent career in the books, including the 2014 Olympics gold medal, and the 2018 Olympics silver medal.

Still can’t believe we haven’t secured an Olympic quota yet, in any events/sports.

My top 10: 1. Athletics 2. Tennis 3. Beach Volleyball 4. Swimming 5. 3X3 Basketball 6. Basketball 7. Badminton 8. Judo 9. Football 10. Rowing Track cycling just misses the list, at eleven. Men’s 100m is one of my favourite events in the Olympics. The only Olympic sport I hate is breaking. It’s so hard though making this list because, like @phelps I too feel like I am doing some sports injustice.

Justina di Stasio started off on a high, on the final day of the women's 76kg freestyle, winning her first repecharge match against Austria's Martina Kuenz 3-3, but ultimately finishes just short of a medal, losing her bronze medal match against Estonia's Epp Mae by a score of 1-2, to finish 5th at the 2022 World Wresting Championships. The day before, she lost 1-3 to Egypt's Samar Amer in the Round Of 16. A great performance by her. Meanwhile, in the women's 68kg category, Linda Morais overcame a QF loss to Japan's Ama Ishii to win her third* world championship medal, winning her first repecharge match 1-0 against France's Pauline Lecarpentier, and ultimately ending her day with a second repecharge match won 4F - 4 against India's Nisha Dahiya

My very optimistic predictions: Gymnastics- Women's Trampoline- Gold- Rosie MacLennan Gymnastics- Women's Balance Beam- Bronze- Ellie Black Fencing- Women's Foil- Gold- Eleanor Harvey Fencing- Women's Team Foil- Bronze Diving- Women's 3m- Bronze- Mia Valee Diving- Women's 3m Syncro- Silver- Melissa Citrini/Mia Valee Diving- Men's 10m Syncro- Bronze- Rylan Wiens/Nathan Zsombor Murray Athletics- Women's Hammer Throw- Bronze- Camryn Rogers Athetics- Men's 5000m- Bronze- Mo Ahmed Athletics- Women's Shot Put- Silver- Sarah Mitton Canoeing- Women's K1 200m- Silver- Katie Vincent Athletics- Men's 4x100m- Gold- Andre DeGrasse/Brendan Rodney/Jerome Blake/Aaron Brown Athletics- Men's 200m- Silver- Andre DeGrasse Boxing- Women's 75kg- Gold- Tammara Thibeault Sailing- Women's Laser Radial- Bronze- Sarah Douglas Athletics- Men's Decathlon- Gold- Damian Warner Basketball- Women's 3x3 Team- Silver- Michelle Plouffe/Katherine Plouffe/Paige Crozon/Kacie Bosch Judo- Women's 57kg- Gold- Jessica Klimkait Wrestling- Women's 62kg- Bronze- Ana Godinez Swimming- Women's 100m Butterfly- Silver- Maggie MacNeil Basketball- Men's Team- Bronze Swimming- Women's 400m Individual Medley- Gold- Summer McIntosh Swimming- Women's 200m Individual Medley- Gold- Summer McIntosh Swimming- Women's 200m Freestyle- Gold- Summer McIntosh Swimming- Women's 100m Freestyle- Bronze- Penny Oleksiak Swimming- Women's 100m Backstroke- Gold- Kylie Masse Swimming- Women's 400m Freestyle- Gold- Summer McIntosh Swimming- Women's 4x100m Freestyle- Bronze Swimming- Women's 4x200m Freestyle- Bronze Athletics- Men's 800m- Silver- Marco Arop Breaking- BBoys- Bronze- Phil Wizard (But frankly, I don't care) Beach Volleyball- Women's Tournament-Bronze- Sophie Bukovec/Brandie Wilkerson Judo- Men's 100kg- Silver- Shady El Nahas Taekwondo- Women's 57kg- Bronze- Skylar Park Tennis- Men's Tournament- Silver- Felix Auger-Aliassime Swimming- Men's 100m Freestyle/Men's 100m Butterfly- Bronze- Josh Liendo Notable absentees: Lauraine Genest, Tyler Mislawchuk, Kelsey Mitchell, Women's Basketball Team, Women's Soccer Team, Brooke Henderson, Corey Conners, Catherine Beauchemin Pinard, Arthur Margelidon, Antoine Valois Fotier, Maude Charron, Boady Santavy, Ericka Wiebe, Justina Di Stasio, Pierce LePage, Derek Drouin, Hugo Houle, Michael Woods, Charlie Cavanaugh