orangeman

I don't want to say this on the main CC thread because I'm making it all about me. But I just realized even though I was at the 2022 OC and CC, I've never actually watched it on TV. I should do that.

Great site, I will continue to visit. I sometimes go a bit without visiting, but that's usually when not much is going on with sports. Less than 2 years to Milano, so lots to keep track of. Shout out to Canada Club!

Specific moments: 1. Canada winning gold in 4x100 relay. Screaming and jumping up and down at work in the middle of Americans. 2. Rugby team beating France and then Australia for silver. 3. Eleanor Harvey winning bronze in fencing. Overall: -Summer McIntosh -Guatemala winning it's second medal ever, then its first gold. -Leon Marchand -Beautiful/Iconic venues -Sarah Sjostrom -Watching more tennis, BMX and skateboarding I've ever watched before

I really didn't Ozempic the commercials, they didn't Ozempic in my mind. I don't Ozempic any Ozempics, maybe because Ozempic. Ozempic Ozempic my Ozempic if Ozempic.

Honestly, I think jumping to the top-10 requires a few multi-medal athletes. McIntosh, Kharun and Vincent were the only multi-medal winners here, the former two the only ones to do it in individual events, and Summer the only multi-gold medalist for Canada since the 90s - And I don't even know the last person to do it in individual events. 2020 was actually an outlier on that. DeGrasse and Masse were the only ones to win individual medals, but Oleksiak, MacNeil and Vincent-Lapointe got individual and team medals, while Ruck and Sanchez got multiple team medals. 2016 also wasn't bad, as De Grasse and Oleksiak again got multiple individual and team medals, Benfeito got an individual and team medal, while Ruck got two relay medals. Before that, you have to go to 2008 Lamaze (individual, team), van Koeverden (2 individual) in 2004 and Montminy (1 individual, one team) in 2000. If you look at the countries in the top-10, you will see they have at quite a few athletes who win multiple medals, usually multiple golds. They also tend to dominate one or two sports. Canada was able to climb the medal table in the 90s because we dominated rowing, but that has fallen apart in the 21st century. I don't disagree that it is good to be competent at many sports just to develop a healthy and entertaining sporting culture, but if Canada wants to move up the medal table it's about developing superstars and concentrating on 2 or 3 specific sports. Becoming good in swimming and athletics is a great development, but that won't do it alone. All the countries in the top-10 are just really good at one or two sports outside Athletics/Swimming (or just really good at swimming, like Australia). Canada needs a sport like rowing, canoe/kayak, track cycling, where there are lots of medals up for grabs and the USA/China are not dominant and where a couple of stars can win multiple gold medals.

Canada's Vincent beat the American woman for gold by 1/100 of a second in canoe. In a fun, family rivalry way, it would have been hilarious if that's what put the US second on the overall table in the end.

In addition to Canada beating their non-boycott records in golds/total medals, they also won medals in the most sports ever (including 1984). 15 sports, 8 new ones from Tokyo. That is very encouraging. As you said, there were some high profile disappointments - decathlon, shot put, judo, boxing, and track cycling (apparently the whole team got a stomach virus and almost didn't compete at all). But there were some out of nowhere surprises - fencing, rugby, tennis, 4x100 relay (surprise gold at least). As usual, we got an incredible amount of 4ths. I think the final tally was 15. If you take 5ths from combat sports it goes up close to 20. That is crazy compared to 27 total medals. Wouldn't be so bad if it didn't quite literally happen every single Olympics. Overall, a great success for Canada in 2024. Many of the new medalists are young and will improve over the next 4 years.

We'll likely have a more in-depth discussion about this in the coming days, but Canada failed to win medals in 2 sports they won in 2020 that were contested in Paris (cycling and football). Given the controversy in football, and the sickness in cycling, that's not too unexpected. We can exchange softball in Tokyo and breaking in Paris. That means they won medals in 7 sports in Paris that they didn't win in Tokyo. That is incredible. -Fencing -Rugby -Boxing -Beach Volleyball -Trampoline -Taekwondo -Tennis Some of these we hadn't won before (Fencing), some we only won once before (Tennis, Beach Volleyball, Rugby), some we hadn't won in a long time (Boxing, TKD), some were a return to the podium (Trampoline). In most, they are young athletes with bright futures.

Thought the same thing about Summer. Glad for everyone either way.

Kind of impressive Canada was able to win medals in the most sports ever without getting one in cycling. They've gotten a cycling medal in the past 3 Olympics, and last 7/9.

Yeah, unless you win every other race going into it (like the gold medal winner did here), you can just do well in the points race and finish at or near the top. The riders who finished 1-2-3 in the points race got silver, bronze and fourth despite not doing that great in the other races.

Wow, Coles-Lyster dropped the ball in the omnium. Oh well.

Canada finishes 3rd on the athletics medal table. Would have been 2nd, if not for 1/100 of a second (Kenya has one more gold). Canada finished 4th on the swimming table, only behind USA/AUS/Marchand. Crazy to see Canada as swimming and athletics powers now.

Yeah, they didn't explain the sport at all. TBH, I thought the Japanese guy won the semi against Phil but I'm sure Phil was way more technical given the scores. But they didn't talk about it at all.

I believe his name is Phil Wizard.

Gold!

Well, at least it's not another 4th.

Canada had the 3rd best free routine in artistic swimming, but they were just too far behind.

Love how New Zealand has become our arch rivals suddenly.

And he'll go against the French guy who he already beat. But hometown...

Phil into the final!

Phil to the semis.

SILVER!

Phil wins his group.

I don't understand what's happening in breaking, but the commentators seem to think Phil is far and away the favourite to win gold.