It’s Canada’s fourth medal in swimming.
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Just how competitive Penny Oleksiak is was exposed in defeat.
The teenager boasts the physical gifts of a long, lean, tapered body like a torpedo.
“It’s kind of exciting for us because we’ve swum against [Oleksiak] at competitions, so a lot of my swimmers know her. They were here to win medals”, Cochrane said.
“It’s not my role to put limits on anybody or anything”.
“It would be my intention that Penny actually become Canada’s most successful Summer Olympian”.
Canada now has a silver and five bronze medals as day seven at the Olympic Games continues. MacLennan defended her trampoline gold medal in Rio after winning her first in 2012. “It can definitely be sustained … the system itself is starting to realign towards long-term production of medals, long-term success”.
“If she can handle everything else, and if she understands what it means to be an inspiration to people because of what she does as opposed to what people think she is, she can do whatever she wants to do”.
“You have ups and downs and you have times where you just think like you’re not going to continue because youre not getting any better and I’m sure that happened to her too and just to see that she got so far at such a young age that really shows that she just kept on going and pushed herself”, she said.
A thrown off Oleksiak replied to the post on Instagram, commenting “no words right now, thank you so much”.
Canada’s victor of four medals in the pool – including one gold – is the early candidate to carry the Maple Leaf in Sunday’s spectacle. Fifteen finals was the most since 1988.
“It started this belief within the team”, Atkinson said.
“Something that can take three years to build can drift away very quickly”.
OTP injected roughly $13.3-million into Swimming Canada over the past four years in preparation for Rio, in addition to funding already in place from Sport Canada. Kylie Masse of Lasalle, Que., and Hilary Caldwell of White Rock, B.C., each won individual bronze medals in backstroke.
Oleksiak’s medals in Rio includes a silver in the 100m butterfly and two bronze medals in the 4×100 meter and 4×200 meter freestyle relays.
Said Van Landeghem: “Penny had an fantastic week”.
A FINA “B” qualifying time was not good enough to make this Olympic swim team.
Oleksiak whose astounding performance has placed her into the vanguard of global swimming scene, who is touted to claim the title of Canada’s greatest female athlete.
Her mother Alison said they’ll cross that bridge when they come to it. She has won five world championship medals apart from her record, BBC reported. “It’s not just going to be Penelope’s decision”. I’ve been on deck when she was a gangly little pre-teen, she looked like, I don’t know, daddy long-legs, she was so lanky and uncoordinated and she’s grown so fast and this success has been so constant and so awesome every time.
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Mayor John Tory said there are no firm plans yet on a welcome home celebration for Oleksiak. I couldn’t have asked for more. “I’m just going to try to have summer before then”. I think this team was here to win.
