‘I believe this is as strong a Team Canada that we’ve ever seen at the Summer Games’
Canada’s team is poised for a banner Olympic Games in Paris despite safe-sport and financial turmoil since a record performance in Tokyo.
With no entries in men’s soccer or men’s rugby sevens Wednesday, the first Canadians to compete will be archers and the women’s soccer team Thursday, when the latter opens defence of its gold medal against New Zealand in St-Etienne. “We always go to every Games with a goal of doing better than we did the Games before,” said Own The Podium CEO Anne Merklinger.
The bulk of Canada’s medals will come from the track and the pool. Canada’s swim team led by 17-year-old Summer McIntosh is poised to better the half-dozen medals won in both 2016 and 2021. Canadians will compete in Olympic three-on-three basketball, breaking and surfing for the first time. The women’s soccer team is among six entries in team sports alongside men’s and women’s basketball, men’s volleyball, women’s rugby and water polo.
That money was not forthcoming, although the feds increased the amount of money athletes receive in their monthly cheques that help pay their bills.
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