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Blake Tierny misses the semis by two spots but it was a good time and very close to his PB. Wilm through to the semis with the second fastest time, she'll be in the medal conversation.

The men’s relay is one of my biggest medal hopes. It’s going to be a tough field but there’s certainly potential especially if Liendo can put down a monster split.

What on earth has happened! A one point victory!

Spain must have read this form and didn't like the accusations of throwing the game!

I see this lineup happening. I think Oleksiak may be holding back a bit.

I'm still optimistic that Oleksiak will be more on form - we realistically haven't seen her swim in awhile.

Excellent split for Ruck and a decent one for Savard too

NR for Finlay Knox while missing the final by one spot.

PB for Dergusoff in the 100m breastroke

Knox with a PB in the 50 fly and onto the semis

Has it been confirmed that South Africa is accepting their quota?

Looks like Rylan Wiens got Canada the second 10m diving spot!

I don't disagree - I think the goal is always to win. 2012 badminton scandal aside.

I’m thrilled we qualified here. I had a feeling the tides were turning with artistic swimming and this is an encouraging sign heading into the next quad. I hate that Ukraine was the country we bumped though.

On another note it looks like Hugo Barrett has been back training. Or he’s at least posting on IG more.

I think this was the reverse.

And I really hope it’s in the 4x100m freestyle relay!

It sucks that Ware who has overcome so much just didn't get it together today and it botched the qualification chances overall. We've seen her struggle before so I'm not sure if it's merely individual or part of a larger problem with the team.

I read that qualification document so many times that I deleted a drafted post saying that Emma Finlin may get the quota because of the how it was worded. Happy we got this quota!

I won't believe it till its fully official.

I’m hope I can repeat my ticket luck from when the Women’s World Cup was here.

Thanks for putting this together! I feel like Artistic Swimming is becoming a bit of a gamble with some of the new scoring system, Canada clearly hit bottom at the PanAm Games and I suspect it will only get better from here. With Simmoneau returning and a new coach coming from the US I think Canada may start to see its ranking rise. Probably only gets the duet spot but hopefully. And you are right we did have an entry in the men's synchro 3m a few days ago... Also a SwimSwam comment made mme think Hau-Li Fan was retired so take the Gaziev one with a grain of salt.

I looked into this and I think Kraayeveld lost the qualifier held in November so they would have had to select the athlete she lost to. A sucky situation all around. Does anyone know if Canada was limited to sending 3 athletes or if it was a strategy to not have to choose later since we were limited to two men and one woman to qualify for Paris?

I think the Taekwondo qualifier is in April.

Didn’t predict the 100m breaststroke as being the most competitive race.