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Current Canadian Total
1-1-1-3

Current Canadian Prediction
4-2-7-13


medal favorites:

Karine Sergerie - Taekwando
Karen Cockburn - Trampoline - fourth going into finals
Adam van Koeverden - 500 kayak
Adam van Koeverden - 1000 Kayak
Marie Helen Premont - Mountain Biking
Men's Eights - rowing - qualified for final with fastest time
Alexandre Despatie - 3m platform
Frandsen and Calder - rowing - silver

medal hopefuls:

Sebastien Michaud -Taekwondo
Gary Reed -800m
Mark Oldershaw -canoing
Women's softball team - 4-1
Samantha Cools - BMX
Cameron and Kok - rowing - qualified for final
Women's eights - rowing - qualified for final
Chris Cook - sailing - 5th heading into finals (rescheduled)
Synchro swim team
Simon Whitfield - triathalon
Blythe Hartley - diving - 10th going into finals
Cochrane - 1500m swimming - qualified for final with 2nd fastest time
Rosannagh Mclennan* - 3rd going into finals
Tonya Verbeek - wrestling - bronze
Hyunh - wrestling 48k - gold
Jessica Zelinka - heptathalon -no medal
Annamay Pierse- 200m breaststroke - no medal
Brent Hayden - no medal
Chris Brown - swimming - no medal
Men's synchro diving - no medal


On the bubble:
Degenier - wrestling*
Christopher - 400m
Sullivan - 1500m - qualified for semifinals with 7th best time Men's fours -rowing - qualified for finals with 5th best time
baseball - 2-3
Men's double sculls - rowing - no medal
women's soccer -1-2-1 - no medal
*newly added
** promoted from bubble
red - newly added result


Thoughts on last night's competition:

And who was telling y'all not to panic? Great results, Hyunh having a career best performance, Verbeek repeating as a medalist, and the pairs rowing in a great race to get a silver. And it looks like Cook's race is rescheduled, so that's another medal still out there.

With McLennan and Cockburn in 3rd and 4th going into the trampoline finals, a medal there looks likely, and two isn't out of the realm of possibility.

Softball stays on track.

The baseball team is in tough to make the medal round.

Zelinka put in a valiant effort in the heptathlon.


I'm upping my medal prediction from 12 to 13.

Competing for medals tonight:

Wow, where to start?

Rowing - Men's eights, women's eights, Women's scull pairs, and men's fours all race tonight. I think the first three of those have a great shot at a medal.

Chris Cook - sailing - this race is rescheduled. He's in fifth heading into the final race tonight, and well within striking distance of third spot.

Blythe Hartley slipped to 10th in the diving semifinals, so she probably won't medal, but she goes tonight anyway.

Cochrane has the last shot at a medal for Canada in swimming as he goes in the 1500m.

Degrenier goes in the women's 67kg wrestling. She's medaled in the world championships before, so a third canadian wrestling medal isn't out of the question.

James Steacy - hammer - he'll need to surpass his personal best by quite a bit to factor.


Other Favorites and hopefuls in action tonight:

Softball - Canada needs to keep their foot on the gas to finish 2nd and avoid playing the US until the finals.

Lopez-Schliep runs in the hurdles, hoping to fill the void of Perdita Felicien's absence.

Brannen and Sullivan both run in the 1500m semis.


Most likely to disappoint tonight:

Hartley in diving, who exceeded my expectations by qualifying 3rd, but then slipped back to 10th in the semis.

Most likely to surprise tonight:

Well I think we'll get at least three medals in rowing, none of which would be a surprise. So for the surprise, I think it's going to be Cochrane getting some measure of redemption for Canada in the 1500m swim.