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Scandals, Medals, Dirty Water and More Games!
SPORTS with George Le Gresley
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Canada’s Women’s soccer team was caught (I’m betting many teams haven’t been caught) using a drone to spy on opponents' practices. FIBA, the soccer organization, suspended the head coach, fined Canada Soccer $226,000 and the team lost 6 points in their pool standings. The only way the defending Olympic champions could move on to the medal round being down minus 6 points, was to win all three games in the pool, earning 9 points and netting 3 points. We all know that happened as the Canadian women will face Germany in quarter-final play today at 1 PM Let’s cheer them on for a medal repeat.
This year’s Olympics is being noted for the equal number of female and male athletes and so far, Canadian women are leading the way. As of Thursday morning, Canada has won some medals starting with a gold medal by Christa Deguchi in Women’s 57 KG judo Her medal is the only one that Canada has won in Olympic Judo
Summer McIntosh won gold in the 400-metre Individual Medley and silver in the Women’s 400metre Freestyle. Summer has more work to do as she competes in women’s swimming events
The Women’s Rugby Sevens, like the Canadian soccer team, has captured the hearts of Canada by winning a silver medal. The team, a true underdog, upset France in quarter-final play, then another come-from-behind upset over Australia, a team they had lost to in semi-final play four years ago at the Rio Olympics. For Gold, Canada faced the All Blacks from New Zealand and the reigning Olympic champions
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The Canadian girls came out strong with a 12-7 lead at the half, but the All Blacks came from behind to win the game 19-12 One note of a Brant County connection is Olivia Apps, whose father Alfred Apps was born in Brantford Must be a family member of Syl’s athletic family tree!
Eleanor Harvey from Hamilton ON, won bronze in Individual Foil. She has been a medal winner at various PanAm and world championships
The duo of Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray won the Men’s 10-metre Synchro Diving event Illya Kharun from Montreal won the bronze medal in the 200metre Butterfly and has been close to the podium, coming in fourth 0.16 second behind the third-place winner at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
