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5 hours ago, Benolympique said:

you know some viewers will never have the chance to come to Paris and through this ceremony they will be able to discover our country

 

we want to show our most beautiful monuments and tourists say Paris is beautiful, France is beautiful

Paris is a beautiful, historical, city. It's going to look beautiful on screen. I've been lucky enough to have visited, but like you said, many only wish. They will tune in just to get a glimpse. 

On 12/21/2022 at 4:36 PM, canadafan2024 said:

1- Vancouver 2010 ice hockey, Crosby's golden goal (the entire Olympics were memorable, with Canada winning 14 gold after no golds in Montreal 1976 and Calgary 1988)

 

2- Ben Johnson's positive drug test after winning 100m gold at Seoul 1988

 

3- Donovan Bailey's 2x gold medals at Atlanta 1996 (100m, 4x100m relay)

 

4- Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir gold medal ice dance to "Moulin Rouge" at Pyeongchang 2018

 

5- Women's soccer gold medal at Tokyo 2020

This thread popped up for me and since the last post was from a Canadian, I thought I'd pipe in (2 years later). 

#1 and #3 - absolutely. 

#2 - hate to say it, but yes. Every Canadian (at least those over 30) know the name "Ben Johnson". But that's what made Donovan Bailey even sweeter in 1996. 

#4 - I don't know. Of course most Canadians today know Virtue and Moir, they are on commercials and we all love them. Just not sure if this one routine makes the list. There are so many great Canadian figure skaters and figure skating moments in Canada. I grew up with Kurt Browning and Elvis Stojko. Then there's Joannie Rochette's emotional bronze in 2010 after her mother passed away. 

#5 - I personally enjoyed this, and the penalty kick comeback makes it an easy highlight reel. But we need time to pass before it makes the the list. 

Possible nominations for the list:

Many of these are older, so it's just about generations, I guess. 

-Crosby's Golden Goal will forever be #1. However, the golds in 2002 by both our men's and women's teams were crazy huge. First gold for the men in 50 years, while the women got revenge for 1998. I was in the streets in Montreal after the 2002 men's win and it was nuts till the early morning. 

-Schmirler the Curler winning the first curling gold in 1998. At the time Canada didn't win many golds, even at the WOG. With the men's curling and both hockey teams failing to win that year, this was our pride and joy. 

-Sylvie Frechette getting silver in synchro swimming in 1992 after a judge's error. The Brazilian judge accidentally pressed the wrong number (8.7 instead of 9.7) pushing Frechette down to silver. Despite alerting the officials right away it took a year and a half for the IOC to finally give her the gold. To make matters worse, she came home to find her boyfriend who had committed suicide shortly before the Olympics. 

-The Dufour-Lapointe sisters getting gold and silver in 2014 in moguls. Their other sister got 12th. 

-To stick with Moguls, Alexandre Bilodeau winning Canada's first gold on home soil in their 3rd home Games, with his brother cheering along in the crowd. 

-When TV channels would sign off for the night back in the old days () CBC would play Greg Joy's silver medal performance in high jump from 1976. I was actually born after that took place, but I remember as a kid seeing that jump late at night on TV. 

-Ross Rebagliati won gold in the first snowboard event in 1998, then had it taken away because he tested positive for marijuana, then got it back because the COC protested that marijuana was not a banned substance. Everyone laughed that of course the snowboarder was a pothead. People my age remember this well since Rebagliati's defence that he must have inhaled secondhand pot at a party became a rallying cry of every teenager for years to come. 

What a game in Winnipeg with Colorado. Not your usual playoff game, especially with the #1 defensive team in the league. 

9 hours ago, Josh said:

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. 

This is one of those medals I really hope they get. McKay and Benfeito lost the bronze in 202(1) by half a point. They outscored the Mexicans on every dive except one (and outscored the silver medalist Americans 3/5 dives). That means if one judge would have scored them 0.5 higher on one dive they would have gotten a medal. It was kind of frustrating that they didn't get it in the end, so I really hope McKay and now Miller can pull through in Paris. 

21 minutes ago, Josh said:

Canada is going for gold at the Women’s Worlds after a 4-0 victory over Czech Republic. 
 

How surprising 

As long as we beat the EVIL Americans. 

(in jest of course)

11 minutes ago, RussB said:

Unbelievable mess in the men’s omnium points race. Hayter wins but somehow isn’t credited with a lap leading to a 20 min delay while the officials try to figure out what happened.

 

Shambles 🤣

It really was embarrassing. Get your stuff together and get it done. 

Another 4th! 

10 finals, Four 4ths for Canada. Another three 5ths. 

It's a complete meme at this point. 

Anyone know where to watch this morning session? CBC isn't broadcasting it. 

4 hours ago, Josh said:

Great split for Pickrem during the breaststroke leg however. 1:05.61!

Wait a minute. That can't be right. Summer's breaststroke leg in her WR 400 IM was 13 seconds slower. I can't find the results you speak of, but that simply can't be right. I knew it sounded off. 

1 hour ago, Josh said:

FYI, after the Olympic qualification period is over (so sometime in late June/early July) I’ll be doing a sport by sport overview for Team Canada, listing surprises, expectations, and disappointments in each. (some sports don’t have surprises/expectations, but the majority do)

Always look forward to your analysis, Josh. I try to keep up with as much as I can, but there's a lot out there. 

Tokyo was a bit of a crapshoot coming out of (or maybe still going through) Covid, but I feel good about Canada's medal chances in Paris. At least Canadians should be in the mix in a range of sports. 

42 minutes ago, Josh said:

Great split for Pickrem during the breaststroke leg however. 1:05.61!

If Pickrem swam that time in her leg of the relay in Tokyo, Canada would have gotten gold, OR and only 0.7 away from WR. Heck, that split gives her 4th in the 100m final at Tokyo. Amazing time in the middle of a 400 IM. 

Disappointment for the Canadians and they blow their lead for 4th and finish 3rd instead. 

Another 4th! 

20 minutes ago, james89 said:

I'm not sure why we subbed in Boyle for Genest, hopefully Laurianne is ok. 

Yes of course. It's just tongue in cheek 4th talk. 

Second 4th for Canada tonight. Living up to standards, as usual. 

2 minutes ago, rybak said:

Congrats for quota.

Technically, Poland still has a chance. Don't lose hope. 

Canada wins in photo finish!!!

A tie???

Gold for Bibic! 

Think Canada was thrown off by that delay. 

3 hours ago, Josh said:

Not sure where to put this, but the Athletics Canada kits for Paris have been revealed. 
 

Absolutely dreadful, as are the rest of the Nike kits

 

I mean seriously… whoever designed it needs to be fired IMMEDIATELY 

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5oUG8GreO3/?igsh=YnJtM3c3ODNxNGRh

I don't hate it. I don't love it either, but I didn't really like their last kit much more. 

1 hour ago, intoronto said:

At least Air Canada is stepping up

 

Air Canada, a sponsor of the event, has offered to waive any change fees and fare differences incurred by those with flights already booked to Montreal.

Wow, rare win by Air Canada. Wonder if they'll balance it out by having their flight attendants be extra nasty to the passengers. 

Good effort. Silver! 

Canada has outscored their opponents 26-8 in their last 3 matches. 

Canada takes it!