Favourite Athletes

My extremely optimistic prediction for  Canada, that will almost surely be all wrong because nothing ever seems to go right for us, there's always so many disappointments.... 

 

Aquatics

Artistic Swimming: 2, can't be optimistic about everything. 

Diving: 7. Three of Cullen/Wiens/Tessier in M 10m (I think at this stage leaving one behind would be a mistake...), Two of Jasmin/Erlam/Vallee/Palkhivala in W 3m, Miller in W 10m and Two of Zsombor-Murray/Paul/Fofana/Ciprick in M 3 (leaning towards the first two)

Open Water Swimming: 2. One male, one female. Emma Finlin and Eric Brown. 

Swimming: 31. With the stroke 50s being added, slight increase from Paris. 

Waterpolo: 26. Women's team, for sure, given the extra quotas. Men's team will be battling Brazil for the Pan American Games quota, far from a given but I think it can happen (hmmmm, probably won't though) 

Archery: 2. One male, one female. Eric Peters is the frontrunner for the men, and Stephanie Barrett for the women (Esebua/Chenier/Brug/Hawash are also in the mix), but the men's team also has a small chance (with Deevang Gupta and one of Crispin Duenas/Reece Wilson-Potyon) maybe. 

Athletics: I know we had 48 in Paris but hear me out... 62. Boosted by some young talent coming through the pipelines and I think and hope the men's 4x400m relay can qualify. 

Badminton: 6. Victor Lai in men's singles, Michelle Li in women's singles, Lai/Yakura in men's doubles, Choi/Wu in women's doubles. No Lindeman/Wu in mixed doubles.

Baseball/Softball: 15. Qualification in softball. 

Basketball: 28 again. Men's team is stacked with NBA talent and should qualify through the World Cup or the Final Olympic Qualification Tournament. Women's team almost fucked up their qualification at the Olympic Qualifying Tournament last time, hopefully that won't happen again. Women's 3x3 team should qualify, Paige Crozon/Katherine Plouffe/Saicha Grant-Allen are probably locks and the last spot will be between Bosch/Brown. 

Boxing: 4. Tammara Thibeault is focusing on pro boxing at the moment, but has stated she wants redemption in LA 2028 in 75kg. Unfortunately, Viktoria Penney who's a promising youngster on our team, currently competes in 80kg and will probably drop down a weight-class because cutting down 10kg is a nightmare which means only one of them will be able to compete. Keoma Ali-Ahmadieh has shown some strong form at the World Championships last year, Joshua Orfi did as well. Bryan Coldwell also has a chance. With Scarlett Delgado, Mackenzie Wright, and Marie Al-Ahmadieh continuing, all of which barely missed out on quotas last squad, our women's squad will be hungry.

Canoeing: 17. Katie Vincent, and two of Sloan MacKenzie/Sophia Jensen/Zoe Wojtyk in women's canoeing. Full squad in kayaking, and Fitzpatrick in men's canoeing. Alex Baldoni and Daniel Parry in the men's canoe slalom events (Parry is a promising youngster, may be too soon though), and one of Lea Baldoni/Lois Betteridge in the women's canoe slalom events. 

Cricket: 0. Nope, no chance. Our men might have a chance if it was 12 teams, but 6 absolutely not. 

Cycling: 6. In BMX freestyle, 1-2 of Mike Varga/Maxime Chalifoux/Jeffrey Whaley in the men's event. In BMX racing, Molly Simpson in the women's event for sure, and while Lucas Zhou is in contention for the men, along with Ryan Tougas I think both will miss out. Cole Punchard and one of Gunnar Holmgren/Carter Woods/Tyler Orschel in men's mountain biking, and Jennifer Jackson and one of Isabella/Ava Holmgren/Emily Johnson/Ella MacPhee/Rafaelle Carrier in women's mountain biking. 

Equestrian: Full team of 9 athletes

Fencing: 14. Team in women's foil, women's epee (if US can finish top 4), men's sabre (same with previous), men's foil, one of Nicolas Zhang/Fynn Fafard/Leon Xiao/Dylan French in men's epee, and Pamela Brind'Amour in women's sabre if she hasn't retired yet. 

Field Hockey: 16. Based off the qualification system, I'll say yes. Women are in a rebuild, so probably won't finish ahead of all of Uruguay/Chile/Mexico, however I think there's a decent chance if we can make it to the bronze medal match against probably Chile, but it'll be a battle.

Flag Football: 10. Tossup with only 6 teams per gender, but I'll say the women's team qualifies. 

Football: 18. Women's team. Men's team has a very small chance, depending on the qualifying event roster, but don't see it at all. 

Golf: 4. Two per gender, as is typical. Brooke Henderson and one of Anna Huang/Alena Sharp/Maude Aimee Leblanc/Aphrodite Deng for the women, a combination of Corey Connors, Nick Taylor, Taylor Pendrith, MacKenzie Hughes for the men. 

Gymnastics: 

Handball: 

Judo:

Lacrosse: 24. Men's and women's teams qualify, anything else will be unacceptable (something would have to seriously go wrong but... until it happens)

Modern Pentathlon: Ermmmmmmm

Rowing: 

Rugby Sevens: Women's team qualifies. 

Sailing:

Shooting: 

Skateboarding:

Sport Climbing:

Squash:

Surfing:

Taekwondo: 

Table Tennis: 

Triathlon: 

Volleyball: 0. Both teams could qualify, and neither team could qualify. Just so I have as little expectations as possible, I'll say neither. 

Weightlifting:

Wrestling: 

 

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