Olympic viewing guide: Summer McIntosh has a great chance to win her first gold

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Seventeen-year-old swimming sensation Summer time McIntosh gained her first Olympic medal (and Canada’s first of the Paris Video games) on Saturday, taking silver within the ladies’s 400m freestyle.

Although she appeared a bit dissatisfied, that was an excellent outcome for McIntosh. She was an underdog to Australia’s Ariarne Titmus, who repeated as Olympic champion, and McIntosh completed forward of six-time Olympic particular person gold medallist Katie Ledecky in perhaps essentially the most aggressive swimming occasion in Paris.

On Monday, McIntosh steps into the function of favorite. By lots. The betting odds indicate she has a greater than 90 per cent likelihood of profitable gold within the ladies’s 400-metre particular person medley — a gruelling occasion the place swimmers full eight laps utilizing 4 completely different strokes: the butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle.

McIntosh holds the world report within the 400 IM and is the de facto two-time reigning world champion. She gained back-to-back titles in 2022 and ’23 earlier than skipping this 12 months’s worlds — together with a lot of the planet’s prime swimmers — as a result of they occurred too near the Olympics. McIntosh additionally went back-to-back within the 200m butterfly, making her the primary Canadian swimmer to seize 4 world titles.

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On the 2023 worlds, McIntosh gained the 400 IM by greater than 4 seconds over 18-year-old American Katie Grimes, who was additionally the runner-up in 2022. Different challengers embrace worlds bronze medallists Emma Weyant of the U.S. and Jenna Forrester of Australia. Reigning Olympic champion Yui Ohashi of Japan didn’t qualify.

The ladies’s 400 IM heats begin at 5 a.m. ET, and the ultimate is at 2:30 p.m. ET.

One different Canadian swimmer made Monday’s finals. Mary-Sophie Harvey will compete within the ladies’s 200m freestyle at 3:41 p.m. ET after putting eighth general in at this time’s semifinals. Titmus is favoured to repeat as Olympic champion. McIntosh took bronze within the 200 free ultimately 12 months’s worlds, however she dropped it from her Olympic slate to deal with her different 4 solo occasions.

Different prime Canadians to observe Monday

Judo: Christa Deguchi goes for gold

The 28-year-old Olympic rookie gained her second world title final 12 months and added a silver at this 12 months’s world championships. She’s ranked No. 1 on the planet and is favoured to win gold within the ladies’s 57-kilogram division.

The one-day match begins at 4 a.m. ET. Deguchi has a bye to the spherical of 16 and will probably be within the thirteenth match of the day on mat 1. The medal rounds start at 10 a.m. ET, so Deguchi may have an opportunity to win Canada’s first gold of the Video games.

For essentially the most half, this can be a single-elimination bracket. Besides, the 4 judokas who lose within the quarterfinals transfer right into a repechage draw the place they’ve a chance to win one of many two bronze medals that will probably be awarded.

Gymnastics: Canada within the males’s crew ultimate at 11:30 a.m. ET

The resurgent Canadian squad grabbed the eighth and ultimate spot in qualifying on Saturday. Félix Dolci and René Cournoyer additionally superior to the person all-around ultimate, which takes place Wednesday.

Canada’s ladies’s gymnastics crew certified for his or her ultimate by putting fifth on Sunday. 4-time Olympian Ellie Black led the way in which with an eighth-place end to qualify for the person all-around ultimate. She additionally superior to the vault ultimate with a seventh-place end as she tries to turn out to be the primary Canadian girl to win an Olympic medal in inventive gymnastics. Shallon Olsen will be a part of Black within the vault ultimate after putting sixth.

American star Simone Biles overcame an obvious calf damage to prime the ladies’s all-around leaderboard and lead the U.S. to first place in crew qualifying.

Girls’s basketball: Canada vs. France at 11:15 a.m. ET

The fifth-ranked Canadians have 4 energetic WNBA gamers: Kia Nurse (Los Angeles Sparks), Bridget Carleton (Minnesota Lynx), Laeticia Amihere (Atlanta Dream) and rookie Aaliyah Edwards (Washington Mystics). But it surely’s form of a miracle that they made it to the Olympics. 

At their last-chance qualifier in Hungary in February, all Canada wanted was to not end final within the four-team round-robin match. However they went 1-2, giving Hungary an opportunity to finish its 44-year Olympic drought with a win over Spain within the match finale. The hosts blew a 22-point lead and misplaced 73-72, handing Canada its fourth consecutive Olympic berth. 

Together with seventh-ranked France, Canada will face No. 3 Australia on Thursday and No. 12 Nigeria on Aug. 4. The highest two groups from every group and the 2 finest third-place groups qualify for the knockout stage.

Another issues to know

Divers Nathan Zsombor-Murray and Rylan Wiens go for the rostrum within the 10m synchronized ultimate. The duo took bronze on the 2022 world championships, changing into the primary Canadians to succeed in the rostrum on this occasion. They completed fifth at this 12 months’s worlds. The ultimate is Monday at 5 a.m. ET.

Canada’s ladies’s rugby sevens crew will attempt to preserve its medal hopes alive. After defeating Fiji and dropping to top-ranked New Zealand on Sunday, Canada closes out the group stage Monday at 10 a.m. ET in opposition to China. The quarterfinals start at 3 p.m. ET. The semifinals and medal matches are on Tuesday.

Each of Canada’s rowing boats are on the water Monday. After putting third of their opening-round warmth Sunday, the light-weight ladies’s double sculls duo of Jenny Casson and Jill Moffatt compete within the repechages at 5 a.m. ET. They should end within the prime three of their group to advance to Wednesday’s semifinals. The reigning Olympic champion ladies’s eight crew’s first-round warmth is at 6 a.m. ET. If they do not win it, it is off to the repechage on Thursday.

Canada’s prime seashore volleyball duo hits the sand. Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson, ranked third on the planet, play their ladies’s group-stage opener Monday at 9 a.m. ET. Heather Bansley and Sophie Bukovec will attempt to bounce again from their opening loss at 5 a.m. ET.

Three of Canada’s 4 singles tennis gamers reached the second spherical. Felix Auger-Aliassime, Bianca Andreescu and Leylah Fernandez gained their opening-round matches Sunday on the Roland Garros clay, whereas Milos Raonic was eradicated. Andreescu and Fernandez are scheduled to play once more Monday whereas Auger-Aliassime groups up with Raonic in males’s doubles. Fourteen-time French Open males’s champion Rafael Nadal of Spain additionally superior to arrange a showdown with Serbian rival Novak Djokovic on Monday. This is the complete tennis schedule.