Olympic newsletter: Summer doubles, Felix goes for two tennis medals
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Summer McIntosh swam to her second gold and third medal of the Paris Games today, winning her other best event. And she's not done yet.
Neither is Felix Auger-Aliassime, who stayed in the hunt for two tennis podiums, while Wyatt Sanford clinched the country's first Olympic boxing medal in 28 years. Plus, American superstar Simone Biles reclaimed the biggest title in her sport.
More on all that below, plus a look ahead to Canada's medal chances on Friday and the first day of track and field.
WATCH | CBC's Meg Roberts previews what to watch on Day 7:
For the second time this week, the 17-year-old swimming sensation went into an event as the heavy favourite and delivered a commanding performance to win gold.
On Monday, McIntosh won the women's 400m individual medley by almost six seconds. Today, she let defending 200m butterfly champion Zhang Yufei burn herself out before beating American Regan Smith by a body length to break Zhang's Olympic record. Zhang, one of the Chinese swimmers who reportedly tested positive for a banned drug before the Tokyo Games but was still allowed to compete, limped in for the bronze.
McIntosh became the first Canadian woman to win multiple swimming gold medals at a single Olympic Games. Even sweeter, the 200m butterfly is the same event her mom, Jill, swam in at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, placing ninth.
About 90 minutes after her victory, Summer had a chance to add her fourth medal in the women's 4x200m freestyle relay. She made up ground when it was her turn, but the Canadian team finished fourth. Australia won gold and the United States took silver to give Katie Ledecky her 13th Olympic medal. Read more about today's swimming here.
WATCH | McIntosh claims her second gold medal of Paris Games:
Well, technically, he didn't… yet. But the men's welterweight contender guaranteed himself a spot on the podium by winning his quarterfinal match against Uzbekistan's Ruslan Abdullaev.
Even if he loses his semifinal bout on Sunday, Wyatt gets a bronze because both semifinal losers are automatically awarded one in boxing. If he wins it, he'll fight for gold. Either way, the Pan Am Games champ is getting Canada's first Olympic boxing medal since the late David Defiagbon took heavyweight silver in 1996.
Excluding Sanford's TBD hardware, Canada is up to an impressive eight medals (three gold, two silver, three bronze) after just six full days of competition in Paris.
There were some close calls today too. Race walker Evan Dunfee placed fifth in the men's 20km, while fencer Eleanor Harvey fell just short of her second bronze as Canada lost to Japan by one point in the women's team foil.
Hockey, one of the premier events at the Winter Olympics and one that is welcoming NHL players back for the first time in more than a decade, will take place on ice shorter than NHL-regulation size.
Summer McIntosh capped swimming’s U.S. Open with the event record in the women’s 200-metre butterfly on Saturday in Austin, Texas.
Some bronze medals are worth their weight in gold. Valerie Grenier's third-place finish in women's giant slalom at the Mont-Tremblant World Cup certainly fits that category.
The men’s World Cup draw in Washington D.C. was going well for Canada until Pot 4.
The draw for the 2026 World Cup takes place Friday at 12 p.m. ET at the Kennedy Center in Washington, for the purpose of dividing the 48-team field into 12 groups of four. Once the tournament starts, 32 teams will advance from those preliminary groups to the single-elimination knockout rounds.
The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., buzzed with activity and speculation on Thursday in advance of Friday’s all-important draw for the 2026 men’s World Cup.
By the time the management group for the Canadian men’s national hockey team emerges from marathon meetings on Tuesday, as much as 80 per cent of the roster going to Italy next February should be written in pen.
Canada’s ski mountaineering athletes have their Olympic dreams on the line this weekend at a World Cup event in Solitude, Utah.
Goalie Carter Hart, one of five 2018 Canada world junior hockey players acquitted of sexual assault in July, will make his first NHL appearance in nearly two years when he starts in goal Tuesday night for the Vegas Golden Knights, who host Chicago.
The Canadian women’s hockey team will bring back plenty of familiar faces for its final pre-Olympic games in Edmonton next week.
Ottawa Charge head coach Carla MacLeod has been diagnosed with breast cancer, the team announced Sunday.