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Frustrating because Hugo likely was going to win that first race.

British guy causing another crash...

The British guy totally rode the Malaysian down.

In bad news, Z-M bombed his 2nd and 3rd dives and will finish 13th in the semis, will not move on to the final. That's two in this event finishing just outside the cutoff. It's the new "4th".

Bronze in canoe!

Overall, great! Most of us predicted low to mid 20s in medals with 3-4 golds. So We've hit that target. There were some disappointments, but born again Penny Oleksiak and Andre de Grasse paved the way. Warner winning the decathlon was a statement. Charron winning gold was an understated statement. Our swim team and our athletic team came through again, which was missing for decades before 2016. So many high moments, but I'd say the biggest surprise was the W8 winning gold in rowing. I'm so sorry I missed it (I was climbing a mountain at the time), I knew they were up to something good. Having said that, gold in soccer was unforeseeable. Beating the USA, revenge for the stolen game in 2012 was probably enough. But was it? One of the greatest moments in Canadian history tonight.

Wow, exact same standings as the duet. And the WC. No one could have seen this happening, except everyone who has ever looked at the last 10 years of final standings. Always the same order. This shouldn't be an OIympic event until performance on the day counts. Or we can just send out the medals 3 years before, when they're decided. It's stupid.

Oh yell yes I'm getting one of those Canadian sweaters when I get back, or a close Chinese equivalent while I'm in China.

Sinclair made a generation of Canadians believe they could win gold. That generation just FUCKING WON GOLD! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD! I cannot believe it! HOLY SHIT!

This is as big as hockey gold for Canada. Christine Sinclair getting her gold! FUCCCCCKKKKKK YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unbelievable. Up and down. Gold for Sinclaire!

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CA-NA-DA CLAPCLAPCLAP CA-NA-DA!

I WANT GOLD

Wow, all Italian sprinters came out of nowhere, literally nowhere, to run amazing times. Good for them! Very.....surprising!

Bronze is great. Italy doing that. After the individual 100....interesting.

AH! 4x100 and late tied soccer game at the same time. OLYMPICS!

Good idea, the first wasn't so great. Canada coming on strong now!

Listen, we had to have a corrupt Norwegian ref in 2012 to take it away from us, let us have this.

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PENALTY!

Drama!

And I say that because a soccer player (along with rugby player) carried the flag at the opening. If it goes to penalties and Labbe does what she did in the quarters, no doubt. Due to covid restrictions, it only comes down to the competitors who are here in the last few days. Either way, these two are my top two. LVL could be up there with a gold, though (fingers crossed!)

We'll see what happens with Andre tonight.