orangeman

MEDAL!!!!!

Swiss girl passing, going to 4.90. If she misses that, Newman on the podium. Edit to say, unless Czech girl has massive comeback.

I hate rooting for others to miss but YEEEEESSSS!

She still needs the American or the Swiss to miss here.

Woooo!

Are we taking bets on that either/or?

The Aussie clearing it is not good.

Thought she had it.

Does anyone here know what happened in the women's pole vault in 2020(1) that only 4 women cleared 4.70? More already cleared it today.

I didn't mean to imply that it was. I just mean home athletes always have an extra motivation, so it'd be nice to not face them in every event.

Gee, I hope the food wasn't laced with performance enhancing drugs that affected the whole team. Otherwise, they'd have to do an internal investigation that will conclude a mysterious actor dropped the dope in the athlete's food and then cleaned up so good afterwards there is absolutely no evidence of this statistical anomaly, and then WADA will sweep it under the rug after getting an unrelated large sum payment. That'd be awful!

Aaaaaand they both lose to the French. If Canada could stop facing the home team in every single event, that'd be great.

Good news, both Canadians are in the same repechage heat for the sprint. Bad news, only one can move on.

Michelle Russell and Riley Melanson make it to the K1 SF.

And Mitchell off to the repechage. Don't expect a medal in cycling, folks.

She'll go to the repechage.

According to the CBC, Ahmed says he was clipped and there was an appeal. It was denied.

Going to need to have that emoji ready for the rest of the Olympics.

Genest

It's just hilarious. Defending Olympic champ out? Ahmed has a great chance! Oh, he fell. Of course. Not a great week for Canada thus far.

Ahmed Good for Fafard, though.

Tomorrow I will be very busy, at least all morning. Probably best that it's a slow day and for me to step back for a bit. The last two days have been rough (besides Camryn, of course!)

If anyone's interested, Canada is happy with 18 total medals. However, we also have a total 15 4th places so far. That is an astronomical statistic, even for us.

I'm so disappointed about basketball. I'm going to a bbq this Saturday with all Americans and we were all hyped to hopefully watch a Canada vs USA final. Even my American co-worker who's really into basketball came up to my room at lunch to ask wth was going on with Canada (He also ripped the refs for their blatant biased officiating). Ultimately, it came down to the first quarter, but really the first half of the first quarter. Canada only tried 3-pointers the whole time and dug themselves a massive hole they could not get out of. It was a terrible strategy and it was pretty even after that.

Yeah, I saw that. I wonder if they asked for a re-do or something.