TOKYO —
Gasping for breath after racing to her second silver medal of the Tokyo Video games, Canadian swimmer Kylie Masse neatly summed up what it should be prefer to be an Olympian.
“It is enjoyable. It is positively painful.”
The 25-year-old from LaSalle, Ont., was describing one thing very particular — the 200-metre backstroke, the race she’d simply accomplished in a Canadian file time of two minutes 5.42 seconds — however her sentiments probably ring true for a lot of elite athletes who empty the tank in pursuit of Olympic glory.
“It should be a stinger and you need to have stick it out and place confidence in your coaching and belief the method.”
Masse is a two-time world champion and two-time Olympic medallist within the 100 backstroke — together with a silver within the occasion 4 days in the past at these Video games — however translating that success to the longer distance had been a long-term undertaking for the swimmer from LaSalle, Ont.
The work paid off Saturday, with Masse touching the wall simply behind Australian star swimmer Kaylee McKeown.
Masse’s second silver was the fifth medal produced by the Canadian girls’s swim crew in Tokyo. A sixth on Sunday within the medley relay would match the crew’s output on the 2016 Video games in Rio.
“I do not assume it’ll actually set in till we get residence and are capable of sort of take a step again and notice what we achieved,” Masse stated.
DIVING
Masse’s day could have been extra “enjoyable” and fewer “painful,” however the identical cannot be stated for diver Pamela Ware.
Ware, 28, from Greenfield Park, Que., impressed within the preliminary spherical of the ladies’s three-metre springboard, qualifying in fourth place — a place she maintained by the primary three rounds of Saturday’s semifinal.
Issues began to go incorrect for Ware in Spherical 4, when a lacklustre dive put her in ninth place — nonetheless comfortably within the prime 12 that will qualify for Sunday’s remaining, if she may regain her type within the fifth and remaining spherical.
As an alternative, catastrophe struck: Ware discovered her method and hesitated coming off the board, abandoning her dive earlier than it began and dropping, feet-first, into the water. The end result was a failed dive, a rating of zero, and a last-place end.
Ware’s teammate, Jennifer Abel of Laval, Que., was extra profitable, ending a powerful third within the semis to ebook her ticket to the ultimate, the place she’ll be on the lookout for her first profession medal in a solo occasion.
Abel, 29, earned a silver medal per week in the past within the three-metre synchronized springboard occasion with accomplice Melissa Citrini-Beaulieu. She and former accomplice Emilie Heymans earned a bronze in the identical occasion in London in 2012.
GOLF
Elsewhere on Saturday, Canada’s Mackenzie Hughes and Corey Conners completed the day tied for seventeenth at 7-under par after three rounds on the Olympic males’s golf event.
Hughes, from Dundas, Ont., fired a 6-under 65 to maneuver 23 spots up the leaderboard. That is seven photographs behind the chief Xander Schauffele of the U.S., however Hughes was nonetheless hopeful he may attain the rostrum in Sunday’s fourth spherical.
“I do know I am nonetheless properly on the surface wanting in, however I do have an opportunity and also you at all times have an opportunity till the final shot,” stated Hughes after his spherical. “I’ll give all of it I’ve tomorrow and we’ll see what occurs.”
Conners, from Listowel, Ont., shot a 5-under 66 within the third spherical to complete the day tied along with his Canadian teammate and 10 others.
The 2 Canadians will tee off in consecutive teams on Sunday morning.
TRACK
On the monitor, Canada’s Marco Arop led wire to wire to win his warmth of the 800 metres on Saturday and transfer onto the semifinals.
The 22-year-old from Edmonton seemed relaxed en path to a time of 1 minute 45.26 seconds.
“Issues went actually, positively in keeping with plan, to exit in entrance and management the race from begin to end,” Arop stated.
“So I am actually wanting ahead to (Sunday’s semifinals), wanting ahead to that race.”
Arop’s teammate Brandon McBride did not qualify for the semis, ending sixth in his warmth in a time of 1:46.32.
BOXING
For boxer Tammara Thibeault, it was at all times going to be a tall order to defeat her skilled opponent, Nouchka Fontijn of the Netherlands, within the girls’s middleweight quarterfinal.
Fontijn, the silver medallist in 2016 in Rio, ended the 24-year-old Thibeault’s Olympic dream by unanimous resolution after a detailed struggle.
“She has been combating at this degree for a very long time,” Thibeault stated of the Dutch boxer. “It was her expertise that took over.
“Right now simply wasn’t my day.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed July 31, 2021.
