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7 gold is truly unexpected - I think the middle week of the countless 4th place performances that ended with the terrible morning of the two back to back beach volleyball losses really dampened the mood. However, this is a fantastic result for Canadians and there's lots of young performers up and coming. It showed the continued legacy for swimming and athletics, rebuilding of the rowing program (slowly) and real young talent in many sports track cycling, diving, judo among others.
 
Looking forward to the Paralympics and 2022 Winter Olympics just around the corner. 

Disgusting result, Canada would have finished 1-2 if the draw wasn’t rigged.
 
(/s)

Countries shying away from hosting the Olympics/other multi sporting events need to look at Canada. Hosted the 2015 Pan American Games, which built the only velodrome in Canada + a new pool in Toronto (there were only two, older pool in all of the region). And it has turned around and provided Canada with 1/3 of its medals here. Without the facilities, I doubt Canada would have this level of success.  This is also a successful legacy, something that is always omitted when discussing these mega events. 

Countries shying away from hosting the Olympics/other multi sporting events need to look at Canada. Hosted the 2015 Pan American Games, which built the only velodrome in Canada + a new pool in Toronto (there were only two, older pool in all of the region). And it has turned around and provided Canada with 1/3 of its medals here. Without the facilities, I doubt Canada would have this level of success.  This is also a successful legacy, something that is always omitted when discussing these mega events. 

I am pretty dang sure that if we were offered seven gold medals coming in every single one of us would have taken it without a second thought. Best Canadian performance at the summer games ever, excluding the heavily asterisked 1984 games.

With Bevridge's 9th place in the omnium, that concludes Canada's participation at Tokyo 2020!
 
Hopefully all of us will stick around and cheer our athletes in the non-Olympic period.

Another gold!

RBC training ground has produced two gold medalists at these games (and other strong results). Expand the program right now!

RBC training ground has produced two gold medalists at these games (and other strong results). Expand the program right now!

Looks like Warner might continue till 2024.

Canada to have a better Summer than Winter Olympics incoming 

flagbearer will be gold medalist Damian Warner
 
 

GOLD CANADA!! Second Canadian to win this event!

I like this elimination race

Yep, this is the kind of endurance event they should leave in the omnium  

I like this elimination race

Braspennincx beat Starikova.
 
Starikova easily beat Lee.
 
Lee easily beat Hinze.
 
Hinze easily beat Braspennincx (yesterday).
 
 
 

And Sahrom, who caused that crash yesterday, was already out. Karma is having a field day  

Completely agree with him.  There was no reason to restart that first race, the only one being the GB guy was going to lose.  

up until the quarterfinals, the qualification rankings were used to seed riders into heats, but in the semifinals, we have the top two ranked left in one heat, how is this even fair?

Last schedule 
 
Day 16 Canadian Schedule: August 7 Evening
18:00: Athletics- Men’s Marathon- Final (Trevor Hofbauer, Cameron Levins, Ben Preisner)
21:00: Cycling- Women’s Omnium- Scratch Race (Allison Beveridge)
21:18: Cycling- Women’s Sprint- Semifinals- Race 1 (Kelsey Mitchell)
21:39: Cycling- Women’s Sprint- Semifinals- Race 2 (Kelsey Mitchell)
21:45: Cycling- Women’s Omnium- Tempo Race (Allison Beveridge)
22:03*: Cycling- Women’s Sprint- Semifinals- Decider (Kelsey Mitchell)
22:06: Cycling- Women’s Sprint- Race for 5th-8th (Lauriane Genest)
22:20: Cycling- Women’s Sprint- Finals- Race 1 (Kelsey Mitchell)
22:26: Cycling- Women’s Omnium- Elimination Race (Allison Beveridge)
22:45: Cycling- Women’s Sprint- Finals- Race 2 (Kelsey Mitchell)
23:05*: Cycling- Women’s Sprint- Finals- Decider
23:25: Cycling- Women’s Omnium- Points Race (Allison Beveridge)

Great job by Canada ...... I think one of your best finishes ...... Also you guys avoided the problem of too few gold's this time .....

Final day of competition is unsurprisingly a quiet day, but Canada will have one final medal opportunity in track cycling where Kelsey Mitchell will compete in the women's individual sprint.

Congrats Brazil! I still have some vivid memories of 2002... it was the first WC I followed along and remember... and now another title. It has come full circle.