She’s back in form after what has surely felt like the longest five years of her life, but Penny Oleksiak figured she won’t really believe there is an Olympic…
It will be difficult for Canadian viewers not to fall for the story of Summer McIntosh, a 14-year-old Toronto swimmer who beat Oleksiak in the 200-metre freestyle final at the Trials and will make her Olympic debut.
“What that brings remains to be seen, but there is no expectation or pressure from anybody. We just want to see a young lady grow in the environment.” Given that those three are stroke in their own disciplines, the medley relay, which is raced on the final day of the Olympic meet, also looms as a threat for a Canadian medal.
In other words, most of the medal races will be contested in the late morning in Tokyo to be beamed back to North America in the late-evening primetime hours on the East Coast.Article content
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