orangeman

Just woke up. Canada's basketball team

Yeah, not really busy today. But a great chance at gold later on. I've stayed up late enough here. Time for bed. See y'all at swimming tomorrow!

3x3 happens Monday.

Rogers' easy throw in qualifying would have gotten 4th in Tokyo.

Shoot perfect, doesn't matter if your opponent does. Frustrating.

By my count, 6/15 medals Canada has won so far have been unexpected (or at least far from sure things): fencing, rugby, trampoline, diving, tennis and Kharun's second bronze. Meanwhile, three expected medals weren't won: Decathlon, CBP(Judo), Thibeault in boxing. Some 50/50s did not win: MacNeil, Masse in her first race, at least one in gymnastics, Shady in Judo, Ahmed in the 10k, women's soccer (whole other story) and maybe the swimming relays. But some 50/50s did produce: Sanford in boxing, Masse in the 200, Kharun in the 200. Although, YET AGAIN, we've been cursed by many 4th place finishes, many of those were longshots to begin with. FAA in tennis, team fencing, MSH in swimming. I mean, it's sport. You win some, you lose some. Our disappointments are happy surprises for others, and vice versa. Watching Harvey win bronze in fencing and the women win against the French and then Aussies in rugby have been absolute highlights for me this last week. Meanwhile, watching Warner foul out of pole vault when he just needed a few hundred points to podium was a low. At least we're competitive in the biggest two sports now and in the mix for gymnastics, too. Not like the dark days of 2000-2012 (and even before 92/96 if you were around) - Kyle Shewfelt notwithstanding. This has been more about me talking this out more than anything. Let's go second week of Paris!

Canada will face France in the basketball quarters. They will be on the opposite side of the bracket to the USA.

I was lol-ing at the decimal, not the prediction. Canada now has 15, but really 16 since Sanford has a guaranteed medal. 11-12 more in the second week is not crazy. We will need some 50/50s to step up though. It'll be fun (or not) to see if we can break our non-boycott records of 24/7.

1.8 LOL.

Canada should have had gold and bronze in 2012, but they gave the bronze to the Chinese girl who fell. It was stupid. Cheryl Gibson and Becky Smith got silver and bronze in the 400 IM in Montreal 1976. I had to look up their names, but I remember seeing a double medal in Montreal.

Mens volleyball team is killing me.

Melissa and Brandie win to move on to the round of 16.

Sure, but they were 2.65 seconds off the podium. Everyone was a bit off (Knox actually exceeded expectations). I'm hopeful Angus (or Pickrem) can come through for the women tomorrow.

Good day with 4 medals. Was hoping for something closer to 6, but Summer came through for gold so that's good. Some more chances tomorrow in hammer, swimming and 100m (and heck, archery).

I guess. They were still 7th in scoring and didn't score in their quarterfinal. But whatever, it's all good. It is what it is.

Yup, not even mad. They couldn't score in Tokyo and didn't do anything about it. Couldn't score here either.

3x3 girls destroy Australia to advance.

Canada can't even score on penalties...

The German diving team is very good at soccer.

Another 4th!

Why are there never any DQs when Canada gets 4th? We get 4th every other event.

SUMMMMMERRRRR!!!!!

Kharun becomes the first Canadian man to get multiple swimming medals at an Olympic Games since Curtis Myden in 1996.

I'm not so sure about that....

I know it happened in the 70s. But I don't think in my lifetime.