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 Two silvers and a bronze.  The silvers came from the pool.  Kylie Masse in the 100m backstroke and Ella Jansen, Summer McIntosh, Katerine Savard and Mary Sophie-Harvey in the 4x200m freestyle relay. The bronze came from Shad Darsigny in weightlifting mens 73kg event.  That is now 3g, 6s, 9b for 18 total. Let's keep it going. 

 Start with a silver.  This from Kelsey Mitchell in the womens 500m time trials. The two bronze: 1. Tali Sarsigny in weightlifting 59kg class. 2. From Emma Spence in artistic gymnastics individual all around.  That is now 3g 4s 8b for 15 total.  Stay tuned.  There will be more. 

 Jessica Tuomela, with guide Emma Skaug, had Canada's first Para medal and 6th bronze as she came 3rd in the Para triathlon.  That is now 3g, 3s, 6b for 12 total. Woohoo. 

 Four medals I missed. 1g and 3b. The gold came from Nicolas Turbide in the mens 50m s13.  The 3 bronzes came from: Maggie Mac Niell, Rebecca Smith, Summer McIntosh and Katherine Savard in the 4x100m freestyle relay; Laurie Denommee, Jenna Lalonde, Cassie Lee, Emma Spence and Maya Zonneveld in womens gymnastics all around event ; Javier Acevado, Jeremy Bagshaw, Eric Brown,  Ruslan Gaziev, Joshua Liendo, Finlay Knox, and Stephen Calkins in the 4x100m freestyle relay. That brings the total to 3g  3s and 5b for 11 total. A good medal haul for day to. Day 3 begins in a few hours. 

 Maggie Mac Niell has herself a gold, this one in the 100m butterfly. Wheeeeeee!!!.  Congrats Maggie.   That is now 2g 3s 2b for 7 total.

 Kelsey Mitchell has added another silver, this time in the individual sprint. Congrats. That is now 1g, 3s, 2b for 6 total. Let's keep it going. 

 Hannah Kaminski just won it in the 49kg class. Woohoo!!!! That is now 1g 2s 2b for 5 total.  Way to go.

 Argentina is heading for next years womens world cup after beating Paraguay 3-1 for 3rd place. No Olympics though.  7 UEFA spots and 3 inter conference spots remain. 

 This one from the pool. The mixed team of Joshua Liend, Maggie Mac Niell, Rebecca Smith and Javier Acevado claimed it in the 4x100m relay. That is now 1g 2s 1b for 4 total. Day one should be close to done.

 Yup. This one in mens gymnastics. The team of Mathys Jalbert,  Chris Kaji, Felix Dolci,Jayson Rampersand and Kenji Tamane won it in the team event. That is now 1g and 2s for 3 total. 

 First was the silver in cycling team sprint. Kelsey Mitchell, Sarah Orban and Lauriane Genest wins it. Now the gold from Summer McIntosh. She wins the 400m individual medley in the time of 4:29.01. She won by 8 seconds, set a Canadian record AND broke a Commonwealth games record.  Keep an eye on her. There could be more of this coming. 

 The opening ceremony is underway as I work. Canada will be sending 268 athletes (126 men, 142 women) to Birmingham which includes,  I believe, 27 Para athletes. 11 days of fun ahead. 

 Here are the medals that will be handed out at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham starting tomorrow. What do you think?

 Brazil beat Paraguay 2-0 in the other south American semi final and joins Colombia in next years world cup and the 2024 summer Olympics. Argentina plays Paraguay not only for third, but also for the last South American spot in the world cup. That is on Friday. 

 Today marks two years to the opening ceremony of the 2024 summer Olympics in Paris France 🇫🇷.  What records will fall? Who will win the first medal of the games? Who will win medals in the new sports? How many medals will Canada 🇨🇦 win? Find out in two years. 

 With Colombia women beating Argentina 1-0, they not only qualifying for the womens world cup, they also qualified for the 2024 summer Olympics. Tomorrow another will join Colombia. Stay tuned. 

 Here are Canada's 3X3 wheelchair basketball teams. They are: women; Tara Llanes, Tamara Steeves, Kady Dandeneau and Elodie Tessier. Men; Vincent Dallaire, Garrett Ostepchuk, Colin Higgins and Robert Hedges.  I think that is it for all the team announcements.  Canada is in all sports except netball, cricket and powerlifting.

 Maude Charron and Josh Cassidy.  Charron is an Olympic and Commonwealth games champion in weightlifting and Cassidy is a paralympian in long distance wheelchair racing and is a Commonwealth medalist. Excellent choices. Commonwealth games start next Thursday. 

 This season had (you know) 6 teams and a 70 game schedule. Highlights include: October 6, Glenn Hall starts the first of 512 consecutive games in net. His first season he had 12 shutouts and a 2.11 GAA. October 13, Montreal signs Henri Richard. November 5, Jean Beliveau scores 3 power play goals in 44 seconds. That causes a rule change where if you score on a 2 minute power play, then the penalty ends.  December 29, officials wear black and white striped shirts for their uniforms for the first time. March 15 Jean Beliveau sets a record for centers with his 45th goal of the season. Montreal ends Detroit 7 year run on top with their first place finish. Playoffs: semi finals; Montreal 4 New York 1, Detroit 4 Toronto 1. Stanley Cup: Montreal 4 Detroit 1. Montreal ends Detroit's dynasty and begins one of their own. Coming up soon is the 1956-57 season. 

 Hugo Houle of Sainte Perpetue Quebec son today's stage 16 of the Tour de France. First Canadian to sin a stage since 1988 when Steve Bauer did so. Awesome job Hugo. 

 The United States just beat Canada 1-0 to take the concacaf qualification title AND has qualified for the 2024 summer Olympics. Canada will play Jamaica for the final concacaf spot in the summer Olympics. Stay tuned. 

 First the women. They are: Taya Hansen, Rosalie Mercille, Sarah Te-Biasu and Tara Wallack. Now the men.  They are: Bik Gill, Jordan Jensen-Whyte, Alex Johnson and Adam Paige.  Congrats and good luck in Birmingham. 

 South Africa and Nigeria are heading for the womens World Cup next year after winning their quarter final games. 19 are now into the womens world cup.

 Zambia and Morocco are heading for the World Cup by making the semi finals in the African tournament. Two more will join them tomorrow.  I think I counted 17 going with 15 to join them.

 Here are Canada's mens and womens rugby 7s rosters for the Commonwealth games. Women: Olivia De Couvreur, Renee Gonzalez, Pamphinette Buisa, Breanne Nicholas, Nakisa Levale, Emma Chown, Chloe Daniels, Bianca Farella, Olivia Apps, Fancy Bermudez, Piper Logan, Keyara Wardley and Krissy Scurfield. Men: Anton Ngongo, Jake Thiel, Nick Allen, Phil Berna, Alex Russel, Josiah Morra, Brock Webster, Cooper Coats, D'Shawn Bowen, Lachlan Kratz, Ciaran Breen, Matthew Oworu and Elias Hancock.  Good luck to all going to Birmingham England. 

 Jamaica is into next year's womens world cup, beating Haiti4-0 to finish round robin. Jamaica plays Canada in one semi and the United States plays Costa Rica in the other. Winner of this tournament goes to the 2024 summer Olympics.

 So the Dominican Republic and the United States, along with host France, have qualified for the 2024 summer games in soccer.  They got in at the U20 concacaf tournament on the mens side earlier this month. Coming up will be a couple of womens teams qualifying in concacaf (1) and in South America (2). North America will have a second team in a playoff between the second and third place teams of the world cup qualifying tournament in progress. Stay tuned for that.

 Canada and Costa Rica are going to the semis and to the World Cup after beating Trinidad and Tobago and Panama to advance. Mire to come soon, so stay tuned.

 Here are the following athletes representing Canada at the Commonwealth games in gymnastics. They are: artistic; Rene Cornoyer, Felix Dolci, Mathys Jalbert, Chris Kaji, Jayson Rampersad, Kenji Tamani, Laurie Denomme, Jenna Lalonde, Cassie Lee, Emma Spence and Maya Zonneverd. In rhythmic; Tatiana Cocsanova, Suzanne Shahbazian and Carmel Kallemaa.  Good luck to all in Birmingham.

 The United States are into next year's womens world cup by qualifying for the sem finals in the concacaf region. Winner of the concacaf tournament will qualify for the 2024 summer Olympics in 2024.

 10 teams participated in this tournament over 3 groups. Soviet Union made its first appearance here. Canada, Soviet Union, Sweden, Germany, United States and Czechoslovakia got to the final round while Italy, Poland, Switzerland and Austria finished 7-10th.  Soviet Union won gold, United States the silver and Canada the bronze. Next up is the 1960 tournament. That'll be soon.

 Both the mens and womens field hockey teams were announced today. The men: Gavin Bains, Alexander Bird, Fin Boothroyd, Tristan Burgoyne, Taylor Curran, Roopkanwar Dhillon, Brendan Guraliuk, Manveer Jhamat, Devohn Moronha-Texiera, Balraj Panesar, Keegan Pereira, Matthew Sarmento, Oliver Scholfield, Harbir Sidhu, Gurpreet Singh, John Smythe, and Floris van Son. The women: Alexis De Armond, Grace Delmotte, Jordyn Faiczak, Sara Goodman, Rowan Harris, Hannah Haughn, Karli Johansen, Chloe Walton, Marcia Laplante, Melanie Scholz, Sarah McManus, Anna Mollenhauer, Audrey Sawers, Madeline Secco, Natalie Sourisseau, Brienne Stairs, Madison Thompson and Amanda Woodcroft. Good luck in Birmingham.

 Well hello July. Good to see you. What do you have for me this month? Canada day is today? Got it. Loads of CFL and MLB? Excellent.  What? Commonwealth games? Perfect. Bits of NASCAR? Cool beans. What? No hockey? Aw shucks. What we have here are the dog days of summer.  Oh yeah and the sister's birthday.

 Here are the triathletes: Tyler Mislawchuk, Charles Paquet, Martin Sobey, Dominika Jamnicky, Amelie Kretz, and Jessica Tuomela with Emma Skaug as guide. Oh and happy Canada day.