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on April 16, 2022, Camryn Rogers tied the NR in the hammer throw with 75.73 m

Summer McIntosh’s sister won a bronze medal at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships

I'm just happy to see the men's side moving up recently.  It's been a long time since Despatie.

Yikes, the breaststroke times for both men and women...

Finlay Knox smashed the NR  in the 200im!!

Brent Hayden retires again. Truly what a comeback. 

Tammara Thibeault and Scarlett Delgado both win gold!

This is certainly interesting: https://oneelevenmg.com/jennifer-jones-joining-forces-with-team-zacharias-for-last-chapter-of-playing-career/

Brian Yang beat the current World Champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore at the German Open!
 
I see big things for Brian this year!

Clearly the solution is to feature all Canadian athletes in the Sobeys commercials.

I've been not paying attention to curling - which I think has been good for me 😂. 
 
Was delighted to see Arendz come back from his 4th place with a gold in the middle distance biathlon. 

Brian McKeever  won his 14th gold medal today 

Florence Brunelle just became a triple World Champion at the World Junior Championships (500, 1000 and 3000 m relay), Ann-Sophie Bachand also won silver in the 500 and looked really good. If they both continue, along with Kim Boutin and Courtney Sarault, we have a strong foursome for Milan 2026.

The men on the other hand, NO MEDALS since 2016, and that was won by, you guessed it Steven Dubois. 

Ben Titley's contract was not renewed by Swimming Canada (sounds like a money reason) 
 
Titley was the architect of Canada's team going through a reinesance. This is a huge loss.

Liendo going 51.84 is pretty good too! These young swimmers are so impressive!

Ecaterina Guica has retired officially.

Listen, Canadian prime minister Erin O'Toole will announce the Canadian team will boycott and that will make everyone else realize that they need to boycott, too, because obviously a world cup without Canada just isn't credible and nobody will take it seriously.

Canada had a lot of bad luck at these games. 26 medals is a good result (tied with 2010 for second highest ever, but down from 4 years ago's 29).
 
4 gold medals is a disaster. Own the Podium's goal is to be the #1 nation in winter sport (sadly I think this means overall medals, not necessarily golds) by 2030 or 2034. In 2016, the OTP and the national federations realized not funding the future would eventually come to a games where Canada struggled, and these would be those games. Besides snowboarding, all NF's likely did not meet their goals for these games. The future does sort of look bright? But if Canada wants to own the podium, it will need to win medals in the nordic disciplines. A review is currently underway which could see all four Nordic Nf's merged under one banner, which tbh would be smart at this point. I hope this is just a blip in the radar for Canada and in 2026, we bounce back.

I am back. I just needed to avoid the last week of the Olympics as they were going bad for Canada. I am here and ready for the road to Paris 2024.

Well, I'm off to the Closing Ceremonies.  Hopefully it's entertaining, because it's another long day.  Will report back!  

Kripps pulls off a miracle and overcomes the superior German sleds to win a bronze.

This is one of those bronze medals I’m very happy about - tbh even without the equipment advantage beating Lochner was just not going to happen.

Crawford's medal feels like an afterthought because everyone believes the combined is a zombie. A medal in the downhill or super-g would have been a much bigger deal.
 
If renovating Big Thunder, Canada Olympic Park and building training jumps in Whistler comes out of it then it will be worth every single disappointment from the past two weeks.

So at this point we can safely say that will end with four gold medals. Some fun stats: this is the least golds won by since Lillehammer 1994, though there were only 67 events there compared to 109 here. This is only the sixth time finished outside the top ten at the Winter Olympics, first time since Calgary. Canada's medal table finish in Beijing matches the medal table finish from the past Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Peter Michael & Ayano Sato

Dubreil!