NearPup

Oh no, she only gets to win a gold medal she never expected to win. How tragic.

The fact Andrade is in the Olympics at all is a miracle. Her winning silver is just amazing. I don't think calling this a "choke" is fair at all.

I'm sure she'll be more than happy with being all around Olympic champion once.

Amazing win for Lee

Ya...

Not sure it was mentioned here but ultimately the women's foil team finished 5th, which is the second best result ever for Canada in fencing. Jessica Guo is a really exciting prospect for LA and Brisbane (she's still going to be really young in Paris).

To be fair on the women's side anyway this was more a C team than a B team. I think they pretty wisely decided this wasn't going to be a medal chance.

made the finals, Canada was 13th... ya.

I really hope Canada wasn't trying to make the finals, because if they were...

I'm pretty interested to see how she does at the next two worlds, too.

Summer McIntosh finishes 11th in the 800m free, with a PB.

This women's all around finals is going to be really exciting. It's going to come down to who actually hits their routines, nobody has such a huge advantage that they can afford to make a mistake. I can't even decide who I want to win (I think I'd like to see every women's event go to a different person).

will not win a medal, Nishikori was the last remaining hope. Djokovic is playing extremely well (as expected).

So much for rigging things so Japan wins more golds.

World feed commentators thought this fight was over like five different times, but Aaron Wolf finally gets an ippon to win gold.

Oh so he was double cursed then xD

Big question is, who are you going to root for in the gold medal match?

Other than CBP and arguably Oleksiak in the 200m free we haven't had a single surprise medal yet, so I find how things are going a little disappointing so far tbh (the women's 4x100m free relay winning silver was a surprise, but they were pretty secured for a coming in bronze).

Lol the Canadian men are just never going to win a medal at these Olympics xD

5th, not 4th.

What a terrible day for Canada.

My understanding is that it depends if she got to enter the individual event only because she was a relay swimmer already or because she got a FINA B invite. IIRC relay only swimmers can enter individual events where they have the B cut.

Well I guess Acevedo has to swim at some point. Seems like a relatively weak lineup, I don't see anyone other than Mastromatteo even having a chance of swimming the finals should Canada qualify. My speculation is that they are going MMFF, which is the best order, and that the finals lineup should they get there will be Liendo, Mastromatteo, MacNeal and Oleksiak. I guess K. Smith will swim breaststroke in the women's medley heats (otherwise all women's relays get DQed). Edit: Thormeyer, not Liendo. Not sure why I thought Liendo won trials in the 100m back...

I mean at this point you either have women's C1 in the Olympics or no men's C1 in the Olympics, so... maybe it's sort of a good thing to have a star in the women's event?

If the ICF wanted to keep C2 in the Olympics they should have started developing a women's version two decades ago when the writing re: gender equality was very much on the wall. They created kayak cross out of nowhere, they could have made women's canoeing happen decades ago if they wanted to. The ICF clearly doesn't care about C2, they don't even bother holding it at worlds. This is on them, not on the IOC.