Canadian swimmer Santo Condorelli will be competing in the 100-metre freestyle final tonight.
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Simone Manuel of the United States and Canadian teenager Penny Oleksiak shared gold, having each swum a new Olympic time of 52.70 seconds and with Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom taking bronze, the Campbell sisters were left empty-handed. For instance, at the Winter Olympics there have been eight gold medal ties, with each participant of the tie receiving a gold medal.
“All my hard work has paid off and I am really happy about it”. But the most talked about Torontonian of the moment is indisputably a 16-year-old from the city’s East End.
Oleksiak’s rise in Rio has been meteoric considering that a year ago she didn’t even qualify for the PanAm Games.
That was, of course, before Oleksiak became the most decorated Canadian Olympian at a Summer Games with four medals (and potentially more to come).
Penny Oleksiak might be Canada’s Olympic golden girl right now, but at her home school in Toronto’s east end, she’s just a regular student “with a whole lot of perseverance”. Despite a hectic schedule, the teenage athlete devoted some of her on-land time in Brazil to trying to secure Drake tickets – to no avail.
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Both gold medallists are now looking at bright futures in the sport with Oleksiak facing the prospect of going to Tokyo 2020 aged 20 but as a potential role model for others. Regardless, the policy is the same; whoever finishes in first gets the gold medal.
