“It’s frustrating, but I know I’m fortunate enough to have two chances at the Olympics and not a lot of people get that second chance”, said Cochrane, who will race in the 1,500 freestyle – his best event – on Friday. Canada closed out the second set on a 10-2 run with Nick Hoag of Sherbrooke, Que., sealing it with an ace.
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Canada’s Carling Zeeman advanced to the quarter-finals in the women’s single sculls as the Olympic rowing competition kicked off in windy conditions.
Canada will continue preliminary round play Tuesday against top-ranked Brazil. Canada will face Australia, the tournament’s No. 1 seed, on Monday in the semifinal. With the help of Phelps, the American team took gold, with the French and Australians claiming silver and bronze.
“She did, but she shouldn’t have to because we are a team and we are working together”, Ware said of the unprompted apology.
The best part? She could still win another medal.
“If she’s flunking, they’ll grab her and say ‘no, you’re coming to our house to study today because if you’re not studying, your mom’s not going to let you train and then Ben will go nuts'”.
Oleksiak and relay teammate Taylor Ruck, who is also 16, give Canada a bright future in female freestyle sprinters. The rugby, soccer and basketball teams all turned in dominating performances Saturday as Olympic competition got underway in earnest. “We saved a couple match points and Vasek played ridiculous tennis”.
“At the same time, we have to look at it from the positive side”.
In women’s basketball, Tamara Tatham of Brampton, Ont., had 20 points as Canada opened its quest for a first ever Olympic medal with a win over China.
The Italian pair, Tania Cagnotto and Francesca Dallape, took silver, far behind the Chinese, with 313.83 points.
From the start, Abel and Ware seemed to struggle to seamlessly execute the dives they had done thousands of times before.
Meanwhile, Canadian judoka Antoine Bouchard lost to Japan’s Masashi Ebinuma in the 66-kilogram bronze-medal match at the Rio Olympics. When she finally touches the wall in third place, Tewksbury jumps up again, letting out a mighty “Yes!” Oleksiak was almost a full second back at 56.46.
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The push to the finish was so furious that Oleksiak, nicknamed “the child” by her not-that-much-older teammates, wasn’t even sure how she had placed. Canada was to have four boats competing in heats and repechage rounds.
