Swimmer Margaret Mac Neil has won Canada's first gold medal of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
TOKYO -- Margaret Mac Neil shrugged off the bull's-eye she felt on her to win Canada's first gold medal of Tokyo's Olympic Games.
The Canadian out-touched silver medallist Zhang Yufei of China by five hundredths of a second. Australia's Emma McKeon took bronze. "I'm not usually out as fast," she explained. "I need a little bit more time to get going. The second 50 is always my sweet spot and where I feel the most comfortable." World-record holder Sjoestroem, who broke her elbow in February in a fall on ice, finished seventh Monday.
Standing in the media interview room watching McIntosh race on television, Mac Neil urged her athletes' village roommate with repeated "Go Summs."
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