Meet the Manitobans looking to top the podium at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games
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The 2024 Paris Olympics are just around the corner, and several Manitobans are set to compete at the Games, which begin July 26 and run to Aug. 11
Meet the six athletes from Canada's middle province, and one former Manitoban, who are set to don the maple leaf in Paris.
Skylar Park makes her return to the Olympic stage after her debut at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, where she reached the quarter finals.
Park will undoubtedly have her eyes on the podium in Paris, especially after winning gold in four separate competitions last year, which included the top spot at the Taiyuan World Taekwondo Grand Prix in China and then the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile.
In an interview with CBC during Canada's national junior and cadet championships in Winnipeg in early July, Park said while the pressure's on, she's learned lots since the Tokyo Games, where she reached the quarterfinals in the 57-kilogram category.
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"I've learned how to handle those nerves, and handle that pressure, and so coming into this Games, I'm really coming in with a different perspective this time," she said.
"The goal for me is always a gold medal and to stand on top of that podium."
Kelsey Wog will be looking for redemption in her second trip to the Olympics.
At the Tokyo Games in 2021, Wog didn't make it past the preliminary round in the 100-metre breaststroke and was disqualified in semifinals of the 200-metre breaststroke for using a dolphin kick. But that's in the rear-view now.
Wog punched her ticket to Paris back in May, finishing second in the women's 200-metre breaststroke final at Canada's Olympic and Paralympic swim trials in Toronto, with a time of 2:23.80 — just 1/100th of a second back of event winner Sydney Pickrem.
Wog, 25, told CBCs after the swim trials in May while the sun is setting on her swimming career, there's plenty of daylight left as she gears up for her second Olympics.
"I don't think I ever dreamed that I'd be able to call myself a two-time Olympian, let alone a one-time Olympian," Wog said back in May.
"I'm just really grateful that I was able to hold on for two Olympic cycles, and I'm just really looking forward to representing Team Canada."
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