BREAKING: Maggie Mac Neil has given 🇨🇦 its first gold at Tokyo2020 with a first-place finish in the women's 100-metre butterfly.
Canadian Maggie Mac Neil has won the women's 100-metre butterfly, giving Canada its first gold medal of the Tokyo Games.
"I heard my name called so I thought I did something well," the London, Ont., native said immediately after her win."And then I turned around and was kind of scanning the scoreboard, I don't think it'll process for a little while." At the half-way point of the women's 100-metre final, Mac Neil found herself in seventh, trailing by the fractions of a second that divide Olympic heartbreak from triumph. In the final 50 metres, she knew what to do -- because she'd done it before.During the 2019 world championships, her first senior international event, Mac Neil went head-to-head with Sweden's Sarah Sjöström in the final.
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