[GT] Saturday August 6

[V]

Haha, Oleksiak already busted her thing they gave them after the medals.

[GirlySports]

End of medals for Day 1

Gold medal count (12 out of 306)

Australia 2
Hungary 2
Argentina 1
Belgium 1
Japan 1
South Korea 1
Russia 1
USA 1
Thailand 1
Vietnam 1

[CofR]

They just said on the broadcast that Walsh-Jennings has never lost a set in her previous 3 Olympics, that's incredible.

[Ozy_Flame]

Why was the crowd on Zimbabwe's side against Canada today? So weird.

[GirlySports]

They were for Zimbabwe the minnows

[craigwd]

Originally Posted by V

Haha, Oleksiak already busted her thing they gave them after the medals.

That's Taylor Ruck.

[LChoy]

Can't find it anywhere, but why wasn't Michelle Williams allowed to swim in the finals of the women's swim relay?

[Sainters7]

I know nothing about the technicalities of Olympic swimming, but from what it sounded like yesterday, there's 5 women on the team, and it was a coach's decision to use the other swimmer and sit Williams for the final. Wasn't a punishment or anything like that, sounds more just like a gut decision based on the matchups. They all will receive bronze medals though, since Williams competed in the event itself.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

I know nothing about the technicalities of Olympic swimming, but from what it sounded like yesterday, there's 5 women on the team, and it was a coach's decision to use the other swimmer and sit Williams for the final. Wasn't a punishment or anything like that, sounds more just like a gut decision based on the matchups. They all will receive bronze medals though, since Williams competed in the event itself.

Yeah they talked about that on the broadcast and that was what they said. It was obviously hard for her, but it all worked out.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by keenan87

It seems like most of Canada's medal hopes sre on women.

Not sure why the men in this country never do too well. Maybe less focus on hockey and more on other stuff would help (especially for those who cant really afford to out their kids through hockey).

Clara Hughes was on the news talking about this.

She said it is all because of depth of field. Since so few countries take their female athletic seriously and have very low participation rates, women's sports tend to have very little top end competition.

In the men's fields there is so much competition it can be nearly impossible (her exact words iirc) to medal regardless of money or training.

Canada has excellent participation for women and our general levels of equality means our women tend to do better than our men.