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I don't criticize people for celebrating aggressively, as Sun always does.  But doing it when someone else gets DQ'd is classless.  Not surprised, though.  

Wow, so much drama in this World Championships lol

I can speak from experience, that Montreal nightlife sure is something! 

Everyone says the Olympic Village is full of....let's say, obscure behaviour  Have you noticed anything?  

Thank you for the welcome and thanks for checking out my site.  Greatly appreciated! 
 
 
 
We weren't happy about the 9th place.  In the overall standings we actually tied with the Soviet Union but they were awarded the 8th spot based on goal differential.
 
A few highlights/lowlights;
 - We lost to West Germany in the opening game, 5-0.  We choked!  We had beaten them in West Germany about a month prior to the Games.
 - We had never defeated or tied Mexico.  We tied 4-4.
 - We had never defeated or tied the Soviet Union.  We tied 6-6.
 - We lost to the gold medal Hungarian team but only by a score of 4-2.
 - We were ranked 16th in the world 2 years prior, so we did improve.
 
In addition to defeating West Germany in their home pool, one additional non-Olympic highlight is; in the spring of 1976, we traveled to Long Beach CA to play an exhibition game against the US National team (which didn't qualify for Montreal).  For the first time, we defeated the USA and did so quite convincingly.
 
To answer your question, it was an honor, a thrill and a lifelong dream to compete in the Olympics and represent my country.  There were many highs and lows throughout the journey.  I remember saying to myself many times, "this is the big one, give every single ounce of effort you have, stay focused and do what will help the team".  Looking back, this is exactly what I did.  Do I have regrets about how I and the team executed our play?  Yes but I have none regarding the efforts we all put forward.  We left it all in the pool.  
 
Thank you again for asking and I'm happy to answer questions or share experiences...

No, they received an invitation. Direct qualification would be a massive step forward.

Why would Saint Lucia be historic? They qualified for this event in Rio. 

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/aquatics/world-aquatics-championships-july-22-1.5219934

What a second half off the race for Macneil! Defeats Sjostrom!!

Welcome to the forum from a fellow Canadian!
 
I just read your bio on your site, and it's very cool to see that you represented Canada in 1976 in Montreal. It's awesome to have an Olympian in our midst posting on the forum!

Thank you 

Yes, Sun Yang has always been a piece of trash. Hopefully he gets taken down in this doping investigation

well, the biggest slovak tennis success was the olympic gold in 1988 and this is still mentioned as the boost of this sport in the country, Hantuchová always claimed that it´s watching Mečíř winning gold in Seoul what influenced her to start this sport

I will top that one, I myself will not be working the Pan Am Games, which is a bittersweet feeling. I got to live these games for four months in 2015 and tbh it was life changing!

To continue the announcements, I myself will NOT be attending the Pan American Games to repeat my appearance at the 2015 Games. 

To continue the announcements, I myself will NOT be attending the Pan American Games to repeat my appearance at the 2015 Games. 

Yes, Sun Yang has always been a piece of trash. Hopefully he gets taken down in this doping investigation

To continue the announcements, I myself will NOT be attending the Pan American Games to repeat my appearance at the 2015 Games. 

https://readysteady.tokyo2020.org/en/
 

 

Ready steady Tokyo.

yeah...
 
however, I saw the project of the renovation works and it looks it will become a wonderful hockey arena in the end...

To continue the announcements, I myself will NOT be attending the Pan American Games to repeat my appearance at the 2015 Games. 

Yes, Sun Yang has always been a piece of trash. Hopefully he gets taken down in this doping investigation

In countries where nobody cares about golf, a good Olympic result might get more attention at first because the Olympics get at least some sort of attention everywhere  

Yeah, that seems to be their intention. However, they'll never be able to replicate the FIFA qualification system effectively, like they tried to do for this World Cup. The qualification games are played during the NBA season, and the NBA will never give a "break" for NBA players to play in these games due to a lack of interest. So we often end up seeing "C" squads qualifying the American team, but not actually getting to play in the tournament itself. It's a flawed system.