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Also, IMO these Olympics feel awesome after what was, for me, the incredibly gloomy Beijing Olympics (which, for me, only had two unambigous bright spots: the women's hockey gold and the men's 5000m relay gold)

On reflection, even if Canada doesn't win any other medals (which I think would be surrising tbh) I'm still relatively happy with the overall performance. I feel like most of our big favourites did win. There were a lot of dissapointments, too, but I feel like that happens every Olympics. The fact that we matched our (non-LA 1984) record in both gold medals and total medals despite those misses is really impressive. And I've not given up on us breaking both records! Just that if you told me these were the medals we would win before the games, I would have gladly taken it. Like, honnestly, Summer McIntosh's performence along with the men's 4x100m relay are things we're going to talk about decades from now. That's pretty awesome.

Something I didn't realize in real time, is that had the exact same athletes in the exact same order in the men's 4x100m in Tokyo and in Paris (and 3/4 were in the final in Rio, too).

I mean weightlifting has already been confirmed to be in LA so... who knows how many events and quotas they will have, but it's there. Boxing is actually the only remaining question mark on the program, and being so close to the games IMO it's really not looking good.

Congrats on for winning silver xD (That was a really crazy comeback)

A body double competing would actually be the craziest sporting scandal ever xD

Bold of you to assume there will be boxing in LA. I'm actually very bearish on Boxing's chances of being in LA, not because of this controversy but because World Boxing is simply not taking off and the IBA has done absolutely nothing to make the IOC regret stripping their recognition.

Canada's second set point in the first set. The NBC comentators described it as Brazil getting away with murder.

That's fair xD

Beach volleyball was literally held in a stadium you doofus

Khelif's win is going to make a whole lot of people I dislike quite angry xD

Melisa and Brandy did amazing to get to the final and fought very well. I still think they got robbed in the first set and I'm pretty mad about it.

Well, gold medal for . Can't say I think they deserved it, for me the first set was a clear robery.

That first set feels like a robbery, with getting away with a blatant carry on set point.

And only one gold medal that I feel was a real upset (the men's 4x100m)

Now the 4x100m medals are showing up on the Olympic website

Lol that wrestling bronze medal match was embarassing

Yawn, is going to win this easily now.

All of sports Canada is fat that can be trimed. I wouldn’t be surprised if we moved to the American model where there is zero government funding.

This was always going to be a short final given the conditions

And one can probably expect money to be even tighter under the next government.

heard you are are taking revenge in the shot put xD

Very frustrating because she was clearly in the kind of form where she could have won gold. Just unlucky :/

It looks like she would have gone first too if she managed to stay in the circle.

Paulino