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Olympics

Oleksiak has established herself the greatest Canadian Summer Games Olympian of all-time already at sixteen years old. She legally cannot drink or drive alone. What she's done in the past six days is one of the most remarkable athletic feats that anyone from the country has ever accomplished.

The golden girl. Absolutely unbelievable. I can't believe how good she is at such a young age. The sky is the limit for her in Tokyo 2020 if she continues to develop and it wouldn't surprise anyone if she added another medal to her collection before the Games are over either.
 
Canada takes silver in the women's doubles rowing! The Dutch (gold medal winners), Canadians, and Chinese (bronze medal) were all almost even at the finish line.
 
Jennerich and Obee actually almost caught the Dutch. The Chinese made a huge push, but that was nearly a photo finish at the end between the top two boats.
 
Ya feel bad for him. Really hated that other announcer even before the gaffe. Then during, how does he let Elliotte continue to make that call for half 3/4 of the length of the pool?
 
Friedman has never done play by play before and it's with a sport with which he's obviously completely foreign. He also manned up and accepted responsibility publicly for his two gaffes last night.

Shame on the CBC for putting him in that position (their usual PBP guy got sick before Rio). He's been a real gamer throughout by accepting the job, but no one deserves that amount of embarrassment.
 
And the men's rowing fours finishes...sixth. Way to go Rowing Canada. You break up one of the most dominant eights boats in the entire field and both of them fail to even sniff the podium.

They are going to have to provide some serious explanations over the coming weeks and months. They destroyed what has historically been Canada's most dominant team in the discipline and put them into two events they're not used to competing in.
 
The women's 10,000m final had the least surprising results ever:

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