Rio Olympics Day 2: What to watch and the most recent news
The Canadian women’s 4x100-metre freestyle
relay team, left to right: Chantal van Landeghem, Sandrine Mainville,
Penny Oleksiak and Taylor Ruck show off their bronze medal at the 2016
Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Aug. 6, 2016
- The entire Russian Paralympic team has been banned from the Paralympics because of a doping scandal.
- Rio’s problems continued as the high winds and unfit conditions forced officials to call off the rowing competition Sunday. Canada was going to have four boats competing in heats and repechage rounds: the men’s lightweight four, women’s pair, women’s lightweight double sculls and men’s four.
- Canada won its first Olympic medal with a bronze medal in the women’s 4 x 100-metre freestyle relay. It’s Canada’s first medal in the event in 40 years.
- Eugenie Bouchard defeated Sloane Stephens in a match that reminded spectators of the old Genie, writes Gary Mason.
- The men’s beach volleyball team lost its opening match to Brazil in the spiritual home of the sport, Stephanie Nolen writes.
- Eighteen-year-old Syrian refugee swimmer Yusra Mardini won the first heat of the women’s 100-metre butterfly. By the time all six heats were done, Mardini had fallen to 41st, but it was a symbolic triumph for the Olympic Refugee Team no less.
- Canada’s women’s basketball team, which won its opening game against China, could teach the men’s national team a thing or two about pride, writes Cathal Kelly.
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