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Michelle Russel finishes 8th in the women’s K-1 500m.

di Stasio loses in the first round.

Defending champion Fares El-Bakh bombs out in the snatch

The US missed a penalty shot at the end of the third, and that seemed to be a huge momentum shift.

Katie Vincent joins her after winning her semifinal against Harrison!

Is she going to punch Laura?

beats 11-10 for the bronze medal, after trailing 10-7. This is the first time ever that failed to medal in women’s water polo. End of a dynasty.

Sophia Jensen qualifies for the C-1 200m A final

Godinez Gonzalez wins her opening match against 2-0 Edit: first repechage round, rather. She will fight for bronze against Bullen

Dhesi loses his 125kg repechage bout by fall (while trailing 0-4)

Michelle Russel qualifies for the A final of the women’s K-1 500m

Wait, really? Because it was meant to be a joke ;(

Don’t tell me we are fourth in fourth places :<

What a race by Tola!!!!! waited a long time for a gold medal, hard to imagine a better one for them to win.

finishes 8th in the women’s water polo.

What? That’s nonsense. Only gets fourth places.

Radio Canada def brings la passion.

Zillekens survives the riding :O

Watching some of these modern pentathletes ride show jumping feels like watching Raygun do breaking - makes you appreciate how good the pros are.

They just really need to increase the athlete cap from 2,900... especially if, as looks likely, the IOC wants to expand the winter games program.

Only 16 finishers in the B-Girl competition, as Talash was disqualified due to making a political protest. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/08/09/breakdancer-free-afghan-women-cape-olympics/74741903007/

India's lega name is India Sardjoe, so that's exactly the case here.

Not good. The whole track cycling team has been out of shape due to illness.

Can I just take a moment to note how insane it would have sounded back in Rio or London to hear that Canada won three athletics gold… despite three of its biggest medal chances bombing out? There is so much more depth in our track and field team now.

Team performance wise, not as happy as I was at this point with Tokyo, a bit happier than with Rio and Beijing 2008, but so much happier than with Athens 2004, London 2012 and especially Beijing 2022. has at worse matched it’s all time gold and overall medal records in non-boycotted games, and Andre de Grasse just became a real Canadian sporting legend. I can (and in the heat of the moment do!) complain, but I know that when I have a little bit of hindsight I’ll be really happy with how Canada did these Olympics. More generally, and not looking as closely at team Canada specifically, I think these Olympics aren’t as good as London 2012, but it’s generally a strong return to “normal” following the two COVID Olympics.