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Only the sixth time in MLB history that a team allowed 0 hits and still lost the game. It's almost fitting this happened to the worst team this season - Cincinnati Reds who lost 0-1 to Pittsburgh Pirates.
 
After three walks the only run was scored on fielder's choice who couldn't pull off a double play to end the inning.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Team Canada for the 2022 World Championships and 2022 Commonwealth Games  
Pool:
Javier Acevedo*
Sophie Angus*
Jeremy Bagshaw*
Katrina Bellio*
Tessa Cieplucha*
James Dergousoff*
Abby Dunford
Collyn Gagne*
Ruslan Gaziev*
Mary-Sophie Harvey*
Patrick Hussey*
Yuri Kisil*
Finlay Knox*
Joshua Liendo*
Maggie MacNeil*
Kylie Masse*
Summer McIntosh*
Rachel Nicol
Penny Oleksiak*
Sydney Pickrem*
Taylor Ruck
Kayla Sanchez*
Katerine Savard*
Rebecca Smith*
Richie Stokes
Ingrid Wilm
Kelsey Wog
 
Marathon
Alex Axon
Katrina Bellio*
Eric Brown*
Abby Dunford
Hau Li Fan
Emma Finlin
Eric Hedlin
 
*Will also compete at Commonwealth Games (pool events only). Ella Jansen will compete at the Commonwealth Games only. Taylor Ruck, who won 8 medals at the Gold Coast Games, is left of the team for unknown reasons.

Canada draws Group F for the WC with Belgium, Croatia and Morocco.  Not great, but could have been much worse.  
 
11/23 CAN v BEL
11/27 CAN v CRO
12/01 CAN v MOR

After 36 years, Canada is going to the World Cup!!! UNREAL!!!

Yes, but with all do respect, shut up shut up shut up!  
 
Never underestimate Canada's love of finishing 4th.

Canada's women's team just beat the defending Olympic Champs USA 6-5!! At the Intercontinental Cup in Lima. Not sure of the strength of the USA team, but this win is big!

If there's something I learned from the Olympics, it's that not watching Canadian curling improves one's mental health greatly

Another gold for McKeever!!!

and McKeever to come

Another gold for Wilkie!  After a bronze for Cameron!  

Some useless trivia. With Mollie Jepsen and Mark Arendz winning gold medals, I believe every athlete in the Sobeys commercial has won a gold medal at the Olympics/Paralympics this year. Jepsen and Arendz join Nurse, Poulin, Parrot and Weidemann.

The 2022 league year starts on March 16th but the first bomb just dropped: Seattle Seahawks traded QB Russell Wilson to Denver Broncos for QB Drew Lock and multiple 1st round picks. AFC West just got helluva more difficult.
 
Aaron Rodgers signed a new 4-year deal with Green Bay Packers to quash rumours about him leaving Wisconsin (it was never reasonable to think he leaves a weak NFC North to go to Denver or Pittsburgh Steelers).

Clearly the solution is to feature all Canadian athletes in the Sobeys commercials.

I've been not paying attention to curling - which I think has been good for me 😂. 
 
Was delighted to see Arendz come back from his 4th place with a gold in the middle distance biathlon. 

Good first day for Canada with 3 medals: Gold for Mollie Jepsen in the women's standing downhill, silver for Mac Marcoux in the men's visually impaired downhill and bronze for Mark Arendz in the men's biathlon sprint standing. Unfortunately the para-hockey team isn't faring well against the US.

2021-2024 Canadian Athlete Summer Olympic Database
 
Welcome to the Canadian Athlete Olympic Database. Here we will track the performance of Canadian athletes starting from August 2021 (after the 2020 Summer Olympics) until the beginning of the 2024 Summer Olympics. This database will primarily focus on tracking athlete and team performances in Summer Olympic events. Some exceptions will be for non-Olympic events where athletes may seamless transition to an Olympic event just before the Olympics such as different weight classes in combat sports or lead/bouldering events in sport climbing.
 
Each athlete/team who competed at a top level competition such as world championships, world cup/series events, Pan American championships, multi-sport games or other high level competitions will be listed.
 
Click the sport below to be taken to that respective sport's page where you will have access to the athletes/teams.
 

 
Archery


Artistic
Swimming

 
Athletics

 
Badminton

 
Basketball

 
Boxing

 
Breaking

 
Canoeing

 
Cycling

 
Diving

 
Equestrian

 
Fencing

 
Field Hockey

 
Football

 
Golf

 
Gymnastics

 
Handball

 
Judo


Modern
Pentathlon

 
Rowing


Rugby
Sevens

 
Sailing

 
Shooting

 
Skateboarding


Sport
Climbing

 
Surfing

 
Swimming

 
Table Tennis

 
Taekwondo

 
Tennis

 
Triathlon

 
Volleyball

 
Water Polo

 
Weightlifting

 
Wrestling
   

I am back. I just needed to avoid the last week of the Olympics as they were going bad for Canada. I am here and ready for the road to Paris 2024.

and they arrived to Slovakia
 

Canada
 
How did your NOC perform in Beijing?
 
Overall, a bit disappointing. 26 total medals is a good result. 4 gold medals was very disappointing. We already had very few gold medal chances heading into these games and many of them couldn't deliver.
 
Was it better than expected or was it worse?
 
As said above, the total medals were around as expected, maybe a bit above expectations. The 4 golds were well below expectations (yes, I know, us Canadians are spoiled). We had 11 gold medals in Pyeongchang. I was expecting around 6-7 but even that was too optimistic this time.
 
What were the ups and downs, what were the highlights, what were the biggest disappointments?
 
Pros:
Women's hockey team Isabelle Weidemann (Speed Skating): 1 gold, 1 silver 1 bronze Steven Dubois (Short Track): also 1 gold, 1 silver 1 bronze Max Parrot (Snowboarding): 1 gold and 1 bronze after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2018 Charles Hamelin (Short Track) with a gold medal in his last olympic race Jack Crawford (Alpine Skiing) with a bronze medal and 4th and 6th place finishes in other events Snowboard cross team winning 3 medals for the Canadian team Ivanie Blondin and Laurent Dubreuil (Speed Skating) rebounding after disappointing first few races Good overall performances by the biathlon and cross-country skiing teams, especially from the men  
Cons:
Curling; What a disaster Men's hockey team; even without NHL players, I still expected more from them; first time since 2006 to not make the semifinals Ted-Jan Bloemen (not even close to his best at these games) Women's short track team Freestyle skiing in team (with a few exceptions); first time not winning a gold medal since 2002 Figure skating team (also with a few exceptions); first time not winning a medal since 1980.  
I probably forgot some things so other Canadians feel free to say something.
 
What were the most emotional events for you? Who made a suprisingly good result?
Never in my life did I expect to see a Canadian medal in ski jumping. Got emotional listening to the play-by-play call and seeing the ski jumpers reactions.  Justine Dufour-Lapointe and Kim Boutin also had emotional interviews after not having the best results. I'm probably forgetting some others. Also got emotional seeing the women's hockey team celebrating their gold medal.

Canada
 
How did your NOC perform in Beijing?
 
Overall, a bit disappointing. 26 total medals is a good result. 4 gold medals was very disappointing. We already had very few gold medal chances heading into these games and many of them couldn't deliver.
 
Was it better than expected or was it worse?
 
As said above, the total medals were around as expected, maybe a bit above expectations. The 4 golds were well below expectations (yes, I know, us Canadians are spoiled). We had 11 gold medals in Pyeongchang. I was expecting around 6-7 but even that was too optimistic this time.
 
What were the ups and downs, what were the highlights, what were the biggest disappointments?
 
Pros:
Women's hockey team Isabelle Weidemann (Speed Skating): 1 gold, 1 silver 1 bronze Steven Dubois (Short Track): also 1 gold, 1 silver 1 bronze Max Parrot (Snowboarding): 1 gold and 1 bronze after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2018 Charles Hamelin (Short Track) with a gold medal in his last olympic race Jack Crawford (Alpine Skiing) with a bronze medal and 4th and 6th place finishes in other events Snowboard cross team winning 3 medals for the Canadian team Ivanie Blondin and Laurent Dubreuil (Speed Skating) rebounding after disappointing first few races Good overall performances by the biathlon and cross-country skiing teams, especially from the men  
Cons:
Curling; What a disaster Men's hockey team; even without NHL players, I still expected more from them; first time since 2006 to not make the semifinals Ted-Jan Bloemen (not even close to his best at these games) Women's short track team Freestyle skiing in team (with a few exceptions); first time not winning a gold medal since 2002 Figure skating team (also with a few exceptions); first time not winning a medal since 1980.  
I probably forgot some things so other Canadians feel free to say something.
 
What were the most emotional events for you? Who made a suprisingly good result?
Never in my life did I expect to see a Canadian medal in ski jumping. Got emotional listening to the play-by-play call and seeing the ski jumpers reactions.  Justine Dufour-Lapointe and Kim Boutin also had emotional interviews after not having the best results. I'm probably forgetting some others. Also got emotional seeing the women's hockey team celebrating their gold medal.

I was able to attend the Closing Ceremonies.  The goodie bag given to us was noticeable less exciting (no branded hats, mitts, etc.).  This was only a concern because there was nothing for sale at either Ceremony or the hockey game I went to.  All stores in town are virtually sold out for months now, too.  You have to wonder what would have happened if millions of people were here like what was supposed to happen.  I don't want to be negative, because this was a once in a lifetime opportunity for me, but it's like the organizers went out of their way to suck any spirit out of these Olympics, although the volunteers were incredibly nice and helpful.  I'll tell more stories later.  For now, here are some pictures!  

1) Well, quite a mixed feelings from our performances, in one side the best winter Olympics in the history since the independence in other very poor results of the majority of our athletes in Beijing.
 
2) Better than expected for sure.
 
3)
 
Highlight
Ice Hockey Madness and the Slaf show
 
Ups
a) Petra Vlhová amazing mental strength and fighting in that Slalom 2nd run.
b) Paja Fialková 10th in Pursuit and another top 15 in Sprint,
c) her sister Ivona with very good skiing.
d) Viki čerňanská very solid effort in Monobob from the youngest athlete in the field
e) Special mention: Klaudia Medlová despite injury before the Slopestyle showed incredible fighting spirit and respect to the Olympics by her desire to start at the Games at least in Big Air where she risked maybe the end of her career but still was exremely close to qualify for the final
 
Downs:
a) Mens Biathlon - all 4 slow, miserable shooting, piss poor performances, overall complete embarassement not worthy of the Olympics (the top of the cake was not qualifying anyone to the pursuit in a reduced Olympic field is just utter embarassement)
b) womens cross-country skiing, useless to say anything here, was complete misery
c) but the biggest disappointement of the games was the luge doubles Vaverčák/Zmij fucking up the Luge relay to the whole team some 10 meters from the finish line and throwing away a possible top 10 maybe top 8 and consequently money help for their teammates.
 
 
4) and now for the most emotional, most positive and most of the most thing of the games for me, my neighbors, my countrymen, my nation ...
 
I guess it is useless to write her what that ice hockey medal (first ever team sport medal btw...) means for us. Since Saturday the life in the country is completely upside down
 
In the TV news we have a clockdown going on --- counting the time remaining for the return of our hockey team to Slovakia, now it is 17 hours and 50 minutes to landing. so just to say ...
 
More to come tomorrow evening, stay tuned
 
for now, just Mondays newspaper first pages..