Olympic newsletter: Canada sets medals records, plus who will carry the flag?
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Sprint canoeist Katie Vincent and breaker Philip Kim won gold while track star Marco Arop took silver to give Canada nine gold and 27 overall medals after the final full day of competition in Paris. Both are national records for a non-boycotted Summer Olympics, surpassing the seven gold and 24 medals from three years ago in Tokyo. Canada also won seven gold in 1992.
Vincent, who captured her second consecutive Olympic doubles bronze on Friday, won her first singles title this morning in a photo finish to give Canada its medals records and set a world record for herself. The race was so close between Vincent and American Nevin Harrison that the judges needed several minutes to call it.
Later, Kim was crowned the first-ever Olympic men's champion in breaking. The Canadian b-boy, known on the stage as Phil Wizard, won all three rounds of his final battle with France's Dany Dann.
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In between, Arop came oh so close to making it 10 gold medals, which would have matched Canada's total at the Eastern Bloc-boycotted 1984 Games in Los Angeles. The men's 800m world champion crossed the line just one hundredth of a second behind Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi to take the silver as his rally from the back of the pack fell just short.
Elsewhere, Ana Godinez Gonzalez had a chance for Canada's first wrestling medal of the Games, but she lost her bronze bout. Divers Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray finished off the podium in the men's 10m platform final, where Cao Yuan gave China an unprecedented sweep of the eight diving gold medals. The Canadian women's 4x400m relay team placed sixth in the final track race of the Games as the U.S. blew away the competition in near world-record time.
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Also on the track, Kenya's Faith Kipyegon became the first athlete to win three consecutive Olympic 1,500m titles, taking the women's final in an Olympic-record 3:51.29. Norwegian star Jakob Ingebrigtsen rebounded from his shocking fourth-place finish in the men's 1,500 to capture his first 5,000m gold.
Canada is not expected to win any more medals on Sunday as the Games wrap up with a limited slate of competition. So, barring any surprises, the final tally should be 27 — nine gold, seven silver and 11 bronze. That currently puts Canada 11th in the standings, whether you sort by gold or total medals.
Now let's take our final look at what's coming up tomorrow.
Paris will officially put a bow on these Olympics on Sunday at 3 p.m. ET at the Stade de France. Details about the show, expected to last about two and a half hours, are being kept mostly under wraps. But it will reportedly include performances by Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg and the Red Hot Chili Peppers — all natives of Los Angeles, where the 2028 Olympics will be staged. Tom Cruise, another super-famous L.A. resident, will reportedly perform a Mission: Impossible-type stunt as part of the symbolic passing of the torch to the next Summer Games host city.
For Canadians, the big question is who will get the honour of carrying the Canadian flag. Assuming everyone is available, the obvious pick is Summer McIntosh, who won a national-record three gold medals and a silver in four individual swimming events. But there are many other champions to choose from, including hammer throwers Camryn Rogers and Ethan Katzberg (that would be a neat pair) and of course the men's 4x100m relay team — though the fact that Andre De Grasse was a flag-bearer for the opening ceremony might rule them out.
An announcement from the Canadian Olympic Committee is expected Sunday morning.
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