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Men’s wheelchair basketball team qualifies for Paris! 
 
0-3 in pool play, but defeat Italy 72-60 in the Paralympic qualification match to continue their streak of competing at every single Paralympics since 1968!!

The men's wheelchair basketball team qualified by beating Italy 72-60.

CBC has announced its first lineup: https://www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/press-release/cbc-radio-canada-announces-preliminary-coverage-plans-and-hosts-for-the-oly

Great that they’ll be streaming pretty much everything, but I hope they’ll have separate streams for track and all the various field events at Paris. Most the time on athletics streams they only show replays of field events, it’s rarely ever live. Canada has medal potential in both, and I wouldn’t want to miss anything live.
 
Also hope that Brittany MacLean will be at Paris for swimming.
 
Edit: Just messaged with Devin, the field events will have live streams as well. 

GOLD FOR CANADA AT THE WOMEN’S HOCKEY WORLDS!! GOLD FOR CANADA AT THE WOMEN’S HOCKEY WORLDS!! GOLD FOR CANADA AT THE WOMEN’S HOCKEY WORLDS!!  
 
In a game that pretty much had it all, Canada defeats United States 6-5 to win gold!! They get their revenge on the United States after losing in the gold medal match (who else but Hilary Knight with the goal?) on home soil during last years World Championships, to defeating them as hosts this year. Danielle Serdachny with the game winning goal in OT, after a Canadian powerplay was awarded after too many Americans were on the ice. Shoutout to (defender) Ella Shelton as well, she had an incredible save on a potential gold medal winning goal in the closing stages of the 3rd period. 

Double gold for Canada at the World Junior Championships in Ski cross (silver in the men's event as well)!
 
Gold
Kaleb Barnum
Emeline Bennett
 
Silver
Nicholas Katrusiak
 
 

Heather Bansley/Sophie Bukovec through to the semifinals at the Guadalajara Challenge, including a big straight sets win over #1 seeds Huberli/Brunner in the round of 16!

Sometimes points races are messy and scoring can be difficult, but this wasn’t the case here! He took a lap with 3 other leading contenders, and they somehow just forgot to give him 20 points. It was obvious what had gone wrong but still took ages for them to rectify it, with mins of camera shots of about 20 UCI officials looking hugely confused. Just a bad look at such a significant event.

Unbelievable mess in the men’s omnium points race. Hayter wins but somehow isn’t credited with a lap leading to a 20 min delay while the officials try to figure out what happened.
 
Shambles 🤣

Jennifer Jones is a great person, by all accounts, and for my money the greatest curling player of her generation on the women's side. Really extraordinary career.

Would have won a medal at the last Olympics and each World Championships since 2020.

Results
 
She split 1:17.75

Normally the morning sessions aren't livestreamed anywhere, even at the world championships.

Disappointment for the Canadians and they blow their lead for 4th and finish 3rd instead. 

Wait a minute. That can't be right. Summer's breaststroke leg in her WR 400 IM was 13 seconds slower. I can't find the results you speak of, but that simply can't be right. I knew it sounded off. 

Also want to mention, the friendship between Jennifer Jones and Team Fujisawa is so heartwarming. 
 
They were of course at the game watching, cheering on their curling idol. I’d imagine there were a lot of hugs shared between them afterwards. 
 
Wish her all the best in the future! And of course she’s not done with curling yet, she’ll still be competing in mixed doubles with her husband Brett Laing.  
 
This video was taken at the Beijing 2022 Olympics. In particular, right after the last session concluded, and the moment she found out that Japan would qualify for the semifinals instead of Canada. One of the many reasons why she’s one of my favourite curlers (and athletes in general)

If Pickrem swam that time in her leg of the relay in Tokyo, Canada would have gotten gold, OR and only 0.7 away from WR. Heck, that split gives her 4th in the 100m final at Tokyo. Amazing time in the middle of a 400 IM. 

If Pickrem swam that time in her leg of the relay in Tokyo, Canada would have gotten gold, OR and only 0.7 away from WR. Heck, that split gives her 4th in the 100m final at Tokyo. Amazing time in the middle of a 400 IM. 

Always look forward to your analysis, Josh. I try to keep up with as much as I can, but there's a lot out there. 
 
Tokyo was a bit of a crapshoot coming out of (or maybe still going through) Covid, but I feel good about Canada's medal chances in Paris. At least Canadians should be in the mix in a range of sports. 

FYI, after the Olympic qualification period is over (so sometime in late June/early July) I’ll be doing a sport by sport overview for Team Canada, listing surprises, expectations, and disappointments in each. (some sports don’t have surprises/expectations, but the majority do)

will have a full track cycling team!

Jennifer Jones’s four-person curling career has come to an end 

qualifies a full team for Paris 

Can we have a disqualification at some point? This  -  race is tedious xD

Gold for Bibic!