In this week’s Tokyo Olympics update: With mom waiting outside in the parking lot, ninth grader Summer McIntosh did something very few 14-year-olds have ever done. She qualified for the Olympics.
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McIntosh will be Canada’s new kid on the block in Tokyo, a similar role then-16-year-old Penny Oleksiak played five years ago in Rio. In one of her races at last week's Canadian Olympic swim trials, she beat Oleksiak.
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“When you speak to her, there’s a steeliness to her face … She reminds me of a great white shark. That’s how I describe her – just so focused on what she wants to do,” her coach Ben Titley said.
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Meanwhile, boxer Mandy Bujold is one of the 337 Canadians who have qualified for Tokyo. This week, the IOC overturned a rule that eliminated opportunities for her to qualify after taking a year to have a child
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🏀 In basketball, Canada is in the semi-finals of a must-win qualifying tournament, set to play the Czech Republic on Saturday.
🏃♀️ In running, four Canadians snuck under Olympic standard just days before the qualifying period closed on Tuesday
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In Tokyo, #COVID19 is back on the rise. The city’s infections rose to its highest rates in a month on Wednesday, prompting discussions of halving previous limits of 10,000 spectators and banning them from night events.
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