orangeman

Where are you watching this? Edit: Nvmd, it's CBC.

Just found out one of my students will be competing for Guatemala! Since it's here in Guate, I will try to go watch live.

On one hand, I can't totally blame athletes who don't make any money. On the other hand, terrible thing to do to your body for something no one's really going to care about. But let's be honest, so many athletes already juice, this is just a way to maybe make some money out of it.

I did not realize Fontana competed (and medaled) in 2006 when she was only 15. Milano will be her 6th Olympics. Amazing.

I thought we were getting there in the 00s with Beckie Scott and Chandra Crawford. Then it disappeared. It's just odd for a country with the natural features to be so weak in x country and alpine. Alberta + BC have double the population of Norway, with the best conditions in the world. No reason they can't compete with Norway for those sports just by themselves. Quebec does it with short track. But we digress. Totally off topic.

Sorry, off topic, but this means Summer McIntosh has won 25% of Canada's swimming golds. That is crazy. She's not even 20 years old. Also, almost 1/3 of Canada's swimming medals (20) have come just in the last three cycles. Consider we only got 12 in the 7 cycles before that, including only 1 gold. That brings us to 1984, that's why I stopped there. For Athletics, almost 25% of medals (17) have come in the last 3 cycles, with almost 1/3 (6) of the golds in that time. We only got 9 medals, and 3 golds in the 7 cycles before that. This is why Canada's overall medal counts at the SOG were so low historically, we just didn't compete in the sports with the most medals. Now we have some swimmers who can compete for multiple medals, although our track/field output still seems one and done. At least we had De Grasse for a while. As for rowing, about 20% of the total medals and 50% of their golds came in just 1992 and 1996. Seriously, our rowers won 4 golds in Barcelona, while the entire Team Canada would not win 4 golds all together again until Rio.

Happy with silver, but would have preferred anyone else to take gold.

Just catching up now. Super annoying how Mitton was in 2nd until the final throw. Oh well. Good for Arop and the relays!

Lepage in 17th with 1692 points after two events. In 2023, he was in 4th with 1944 points.

I've been able to go to some short track WC stops in the past in China and Korea, but I've never gotten Olympic tickets. Enjoy!

Katzberg responds!

Well, we have a competition now.

That was the slowest heat, too.

Oy, Sutherland.

Sutherland

Due to our long historical tradition in this event....

While not as far as in Paris, it still would have won gold. Looks good!

Yeah, it's crazy. I was traveling during those WC, but I did try to keep up. I don't remember that 4th place, although to be fair there are a lot to keep track of.

12th for Levins, just over a minute behind the podium. Great showing. I looked at his numbers this morning, compared to the others. I was shocked to find out that he's really up there. I don't really follow marathon, I didn't know we had someone that can compete with the best.

WHAT A FINISH!

For perspective, that little toss was over half a meter better than her gold medal in Paris last year, and 30cm better than her last WC gold. In qualifying. Can't wait for the final!

Over half a meter farther than her gold medal distance in Paris last year, and 30 cm farther than her last WC gold in 2023. And she made it look very easy.

I missed the race, did they drop the baton or something? Not that they were favoured to win or anything, I'm just going by the time.

Or this (triathlon, but still)... I agree stadium finishes are exciting, but if you have an iconic landmark in your host city, let's see it at the finish!

Unless it looks like this...