Canadian Rio Olympics Update – Day 6
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The Canadian medal count sits at 6 – 1 silver and 5 bronze thanks to another victory in the pool – another bronze – this time for the women’s 4×200 metre freestyle relay team. Toronto’s 16-year-old phenom Penny Oleksiak has now collected 3 Olympic medals at the games.
Oleksiak is now tied for the most medals ever won by a Canadian swimmer in an Olympic games. She goes for number 4 and Olympic history tonight in the women’s 100 free finals at 10pm.
Canada’s Graham DeLaet was ‘up to par’ in today’s return of men’s golf in Rio. Graham shot a five-under 66 in round 1, and entered the clubhouse in 2nd place. Australia’s Marcus Fraser had a brilliant opening round and leads at eight-under 63. Great Britain’s Justin Rose had an Olympic hole-in-one, acing the par 3, 4th hole.
Olympic fun fact: technically Canada is the defending champion in men’s golf. The last gold medal in golf was awarded to Canadian George Lyon in 1904.
TENNIS: Canada’s mens double tandem Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil are under way in semi-final action against Spain’s Rafael Nadal and Marc Lopez. Canada dropped the opening set in the match. Win and Canada plays for gold. Lose and Nestor and Pospisil play for bronze.
Back to the pool – Santo Condorelli missed a medal by 3/100ths of a second last night in the 100m freestyle finals. Santo will swim in tonight’s 50m freestyle finals with a shot at the podium. Condorelli recorded a personal best to finish 3rd in his heat and 7th overall among 16 competitors.
White Rock B.C.’s Hilary Caldwell and North Bay’s Dominique Bouchard have advanced to tonight’s women’s 200 backstroke semi’s. Caldwell qualified in second while Bouchard enters the semi finals ranked 7th.
BOXING: Canadian by the way of Chechnya Arthur Biyarslanov won a 3-0 decision over his Jordan opponent in the opening fight of the men’s 64-kg light welterweight division. Arthur won Canada’s first Pam Am gold medal in boxing since 1975 last summer.
BEACH VOLLEYBALL – Canada’s Ben Saxton and Chain Schalk are playing the waiting game. After a 2-0 loss to Cuba in today’s pool play final, Canada needs help from Brazil to advance to the round of 16. If Brazil beats Latvia, Canada will advance.
The Canadian women’s soccer team meets France in the quarter-finals Friday night at 6pm.
Michael Phelps continues to be the story. Phelps has the chance to break a record that has stood for 2,168 years. When Phelps won the men’s 200-metre butterfly he hearned his 12th individual gold medal. That tied a record set by Leonidas of Rhodes in 152 B.C. Phelps has TWO chances to break that record – the 200 individual medley today and the 100-metre butterfly on Friday.
TSN says it may take a few more weeks for details to emerge regarding the Russian state-sponsored doping program. A Canadian lawyer is expected to present his findings before the end of September.
Corunna’s Derek Drouin, the current reigning world champion in high jump, will begin competition on Sunday, August 14th.
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