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Nestor/Pospisil winning, the amazing and incredible Basketball comeback, seeing Jennrich and Obee looking super solid, not too mention two bronze medals, today's highs outweighed the lows.

It was also fantastic to see the Canadian Men's Volleyball team beat the US. What a great result for a team that needed a last chance qualifier that was down to the wire. The confidence seems there.

Considering no one really expected Canada to contend for medals in the pool, this has been a completely thrilling first couple of days. Extremely disappointed by the flub in the diving today and the poor performance in gymnastics, but elated that Penny won the silver. Canada also won more fencing bouts this year than in 2012 (we have 2 this Olympics and only 1 in the previous).

Penny was amazing today. This is a true star.

That was a truly thrilling moment! The first time in 20 years a Canadian woman has won a swimming medal. And look at this team, it certainly won't be the last.

PENNY!

Canada always seems to have bad luck at the summer Olympics. Haha.

Oh that's annoying. Valois-Fortier though, that's super frustrating, sometimes people have those opponents you just can't break.

How so?

[hide] Preliminary Round August 3rd - August 9th, 2016 12 Nations, 3 Groups, 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group and 2 best 3rd ranked Nations between all Groups will qualify for Quarterfinals Group E Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 August 3rd 2016, h. 13:00, Olympic Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Sweden 2 0 South Africa August 3rd 2016, h. 16:00, Olympic Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2 1 China August 6th 2016, h. 19:00, Olympic Stadium, Rio de Janeiro South Africa 0 1 China August 6th 2016, h. 22:00, Olympic Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2 0 Sweden August 9th 2016, h. 22:00, Amazonia Arena, Manaus South Africa 0 1 Brazil August 9th 2016, h. 22:00, Mane Garrincha Stadium, Brasilia China 1 0 Sweden Group F Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 August 3rd 2016, h. 15:00, Corinthians Arena, Sao Paulo Canada 2 0 Australia August 3rd 2016, h. 18:00, Corinthians Arena, Sao Paulo Zimbabwe 0 5 Germany August 6th 2016, h. 15:00, Corinthians Arena, Sao Paulo Canada 2 0 Zimbabwe August 6th 2016, h. 18:00, Corinthians Arena, Sao Paulo Germany 2 0 Australia August 9th 2016, h. 16:00, Fonte Nova Arena, Salvador Germany 2 1 Canada August 9th 2016, h. 16:00, Mane Garrincha Stadium, Brasilia Australia 2 0 Zimbabwe Group G Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 August 3rd 2016, h. 19:00, Mineirao, Belo Horizonte United States 4 0 New Zealand August 3rd 2016, h. 22:00, Mineirao, Belo Horizonte France 3 1 Colombia August 6th 2016, h. 17:00, Mineirao, Belo Horizonte United States 2 1 France August 6th 2016, h. 20:00, Mineirao, Belo Horizonte Colombia 0 0 New Zealand August 9th 2016, h. 19:00, Amazonia Arena, Manaus Colombia 0 2 United States August 9th 2016, h. 19:00, Fonte Nova Arena, Salvador New Zealand 0 3 France [/hide]

The other Ryan Cochrane and Hugues Fournel have been added in the K2 200m after a DQ from Russia. So 315 altogether.

Omnium, wrestling particularly. But a bunch of others could not pan out easily (golf)

Your predictions seem to be a tad optimistic in some sports but to be perfectly honest if the cards fall right we may have the potential for more chances (one of the men's rowing crews, Van Koeverdan or Oldershaw repeating, or as you said swimming). So it'll probably even out, with our typical Canadian luck in some sports. As as for swimming I think Canada has the potential to make the finals in many events and hopefully that will lead to a surprise medal somewhere. One of the young team members could be a breakout star.

Zika.

He was just interviewed by the CBC saying how excited he was about going to the Olympics.

Ugh. This is so annoying.

Exactly! Generally this Canadian curse also comes from having so much pressure on a couple of athletes that they falter the Olympics. I really do wonder if having more athletes with that potential sees Canada do better overall. I guess we'll find out in a couple of weeks. I am expecting 3 medals from Athletics, but the 4-5 range is likely.

So COC is targetting 19 medals then... I think that is doable. http://olympics.cbc.ca/news/article/canada-wants-least-medals-rio-olympics.html

I'm not a huge fan of this marketing campaign, but it is indeed well crafted. Getting pretty excited.

True that. It seems like she was in it for a spot on the 4X100m team.

I wonder if George had pulled herself out or was pressured to pull herself out.

I think the target is 4, but the expectation is that more than 4 is possible. Did anyone notice any weird stuff on the team selection for the women's sprint. Bingham, is relay only. George is 100mH and relay? This doesn't quite make sense to me...

Do you think Athletics Canada will be trying to send as many 3rd athletes as possible? didn't know that about Cliff's race. Wikipedia and starting list showed she had met the standard.

Is it top 2 guaranteed as long as they hit the standard? Does Rachel Cliff have a shot as well given she reached the Olympic Standard? Or has Canada agreed to only send 2 people per event?

I full on expect to be using my second monitor on my desktop for the two weeks. Its a busy time at my work so I can only take a handful of flex days off during the games.