james89

This seemed like inevitable - too bad for Ellie Black. And ugh another 4th.......I'm not sure I can handle another one..... CBC said Ellie Black has indicated she will stick around to Paris which surprises me.

Making the bronze medal final in this field is perhaps the biggest reward. We had to beat out some great teams to get there and the US had their sights on the gold. We finished 4th at the last several World Championships.

Well that was exciting.

the Canadian men also broke the Team Pursuit National Record!

I think it just shows the changes in technology and investment of the event. Plus its a relatively new event, its only been a 4km race since after the London Olympics.

To be fair - I dont think any of the teams were anticipating Germany going out that strong and all the teams that went after them really struggled (Canada, NZL, Australia).

Canada did just enough to get to the bronze medal round of the women's team pursuit - it's going to be tough to beat the US, but this is a significantly better performance than yesterday.

I know - i think that announcer was wrong because she repeatedly said that but I only noticed during the mens race.

I opted to catch up on sleep than watch the full soccer game which may have been a mistake but I am so happy. Luckily the final is at a perfectly decent time! That's a great result for Matt Hughes!

I looked more into this - the men's and the women's race have the same rules - "The remaining six teams will be ranked by their times in the First Round and will be paired as follows: The two fastest teams ride the final for the bronze medal. The next two fastest teams ride the final for 5th and 6th places. The last two teams ride the final for 7th and 8th places." Which means both the mens and womens team could win bronze - it will be a tough ask but its possible so I'm going with that.

I may be wrong but my understanding is that the men’s team pursuit you need to finish top 4 for medals. For the women’s you need to finish in the top 4 for Gold or Silver but the second 2 fastest splits will go into the bronze race.

They can still contend for the bronze medal if they have a solid ride tomorrow - I have a feeling we will see at least one of the bottom 4 teams in that round. EDIT: I just learned the rules are different for women and men re: this.

I mean I was uncertain that the team pursuit would be contending for a medal - but that ride was a mess. Hope they can hold it together tomorrow.

That Mongolian wrestler was something else. There was no chance Lappage would have beaten her in a repechage either but the hope would have been alive.

Watch one of the men win a wrestling medal ? Has something radically changed with the national program recently - even the 2016 result wasnt great but we had qualified more people.

PB for Lucia Stafford and joins her sister in the semi-final.

Small victories!

Yikes - she's looked incredibly nervous all day.

Not terribly surprising but disappointing. She can still get through the repchage if Maee makes it to the final right?

I'm so glad I kept the feed on long enough to see Ware smiling with Meghan Benfeito and coaches by her side - they kept showing her looking visibly upset and it was heartbreaking.

Pamela Ware shockingly had a failed dive. It's really upsetting to see her not make the final in that way and very disappointing since she was looking really good up until the 4th round. On the flip side Jennifer Abel looked fabulous qualifying for the final easily in 3rd mere points out of 2nd.

Tough draw but she has beat the Estonian athlete before. Here's hoping!

Maybe Paris will be our year! It's tough - Tammara Thibeault gave it a good fight but the dutch athlete was just better - it was a tough draw. Paris is only 3 years away hopefully Thibeault will stick around till then, she's a talent.

They are going to be so similar to others. They’ll be in the medal conversation just not gold.

Oh yeah, the group stage. That straight sets win over Iran was what was needed.