Surlympics

Canada picked up a quota in men's C1!

Kadriana Lott/Colton Lott start 3-0, after a 8-3 win over Czech Republic and a 11-0 win over Netherlands!

Kadriana Lott/Colton Lott with a 7-2 win over New Zealand to start of their campaign at the Mixed Doubles Curling World Championships!

Team Gushue is going for gold, after a 9-4 win over Scotland! 
 
Gets their revenge on Team Mouat from last years World Championships final. 
 
We’ll take on Sweden/Italy (Sweden seems more likely) in the gold medal match tomorrow at 6:00 AM PST/9:00 AM EST.  

6-4 win over South Korea improves Kadriana Lott/Colton Lott’s record to 4-0! 

Love this!! :D

And Kaila Butler with her third best throw ever (and beat all her throws from 2023) as well. She may have an outside shot at Paris.

Rowan Hamilton with a new PB in men’s hammer throw of 77.16m at the Mt. Sac Relays! Almost half a meter over his previous mark. 
 
What a day it’s been for Canadian athletics. Well minus Mitton who had a bit of an off day. 

Jillian Weir with her farthest mark in women’s hammer throw since 2022, throwing 71.13m at the LSU Alumni Gold!

Mariam Abdul-Rashid also clocked a 12.83 in the women’s 100m hurdles. 

Sade McCreath also clocked a 11.16! Maybe we might have a chance to qualify our women’s 4x100m relay to Paris?

Who would have Canadian athletes would break 2 NR on the same day and this early in the season?

Audrey Leduc 10.96!!! In the women's 100. New NR and Olympic quota! 
 
Time is legal!

Gold and silver for Tammara Thibeault and Scarlett Delgado at the Pueblo World Boxing Cup! Thibeault starting to establish herself as an Olympic gold medal contender, winning all of her matches 5-0 and she was facing some quality opponents well. 

Jennifer Jackson with a 5th place finish at the World Cup in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Women’s wheelchair basketball team qualified for the Paralympics, after defeating Algeria 88-30 at the IWBF Women’s Paralympic Qualification Tournament!

Ethan Katzberg with the meet of his life at the Kip Keino Classic. By a fucking mile. Before today his PB in men’s hammer throw was 81.25m at the 2023 World Championships, where he became a surprise World Champion. Starts off with 81.79m in R1, then 82.06m in R2, 81.50m in R4, 84.38m (!! yes you heard me right) in R5, and 83.26m in R6. That’s 5 marks under his previous PB (the other one was a foul), and a 3.13m improvement.
 
Edit: Also moves him to #9 on the all-time list, none of the athletes above him are still competing. 
 
Not to mention he’s only 21 (!) years old, in an event where athletes don’t peak until later on in their career. 
 
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WL for Marco Arop in the men’s 800m at the Xiamen Diamond League in 1:43.61! Really good time for him this early in the season. 

Both of them won Olympic medals individually at Tokyo, and only a relay medal has been stripped from the Chinese team. Plus they’ve both competed internationally within the couple of years, and are both competing at the Chinese Olympic Trials. If they were doping they wouldn’t be entered as they would be serving a ban. 

I don't know where else to post this but Canada has been upgraded to a bronze medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay at Tokyo 2020. China got DQ'd over a doping violation.
 
This brings the total medal count to 25 and Summer McIntosh now has an Olympic medal

Silver for Caeli McKay/Kate Miller in women’s 10m synchro at the Xi’an Diving WC, with a score of 296.10. Up 8.76 points on their Doha score, good sign heading into Paris. Some of the big pairings are absent however, such as Spendolini-Siriex/Toulson and Jin-Mi/Mi-Rae. 

Tammara Thibeault with an excellent 5-0 win over Li Qian at the World Boxing Cup in Pueblo, Colorado, United States! Qian is a Rio 2016 bronze medalist, and a Tokyo 2020 silver medalist. She also won bronze at the 2023 World Championships, and gold at the 2022 Asian Games. 

Both have been nominated to Canada’s Olympic team. 

https://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/article/canadian-government-boosts-carding-money-for-athletes-ahead-of-paris-olympics/
 
Some good news! JT's government finally doing something right for sport.

Mo Zhang upset World #31 Nayeong Kim 3-1 yesterday in the group stages of the ITTF Table Tennis WC in Macao!