“That’s pretty special that people are watching and know who you are”.
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“She holds that in her heart, too”.
She owes her height to her dad, who stands 6-foot-9.
Her time of 56.46 seconds was also a world junior record, breaking her own record that she set in the preliminary round.
The duo is half of the “Fab IV” on Canada’s diving team.
The other team members are Sandrine Manville, Chantal Van Landeghem and Penny Oleksiak.
WOMEN’S RUGBY: Canada will be playing for a medal Monday. He played a year of college hockey at Northeastern, where Hayley, is a top varsity rower.
She often returned to the Okanagan in the summers to visit her grandparents and, along with her brother, trained with the Kelowna AquaJets Swim Club.
It’s also the first medal for the women’s team since 1996.
Titley shook her hand that day and said it felt like shaking the hand of a professional basketball player. She admitted her performance has been a bit of a surprise. But Hayes recalls her talent being evident to all.
A six-time medal victor at the world junior championships in 2015, she picked up her first medal in Saturday’s relay.
Canadian Penny Oleksiak races to a silver medal in the women’s 100m butterfly final.
Oleksiak beat that mark with a 56.73 in the qualifying round of the Olympic 100 fly on Saturday afternoon, setting the junior world record in the process. But, her 52.72 anchor leg on the free relay proves she can compete with the best of them.
The individual silver medal for the 16-year-old east-end Toronto resident, who finished up her Grade 10 year at Monarch Park Collegiate in June, marked Canada’s first individual female Olympic swimming medal since Marianne Limpert at Atlanta 1996 – four years before Oleksiak was born. “She doesn’t seem like a 16-year-old. She’s just humble, pleasant and very polite”. And still is. Here’s the 411 on Canada’s new swimming star.
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Chinese pair Shi Tingmao and Wu Minxia won the gold with a score of 345.60 while Italians Tania Cagnotto and Frencesca Dallape were second with 313.83 and the Aussies scored 299.19.
