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In America we hear all about our own Olympic athletes but not much about anyone else. Today I'm excited to look at at the overall medal count for Canada, and see some of the best Canadian Olympic performances. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Take into consideration that CAnada is 10x less populated than USA...so take into perspective that the 27 medals of Canada is the equivalent that USA got 270 medals...but they got 126!!! Canada 27 medals is SPECTACULAR!
Tyler's resident troll posted a comment on another video about how badly Canada did compared to the US (guaranteed she'll be here saying exactly that). I reminded her of the population difference and made the comparison in two different ways. Like you, I first said that the US should have won 270, so failed miserably. I then said that Canada should have only won 12 or 13, so succeeded spectacularly.
As a proud Canadian was a highly enjoyable Olympics. Now saying that Australia with a Population of only 26 Million Doubled us in Medals and finished 4th over all. Ever ask why? It is not difficult to understand.
~8 times less population. Canada is growing faster than the U.S.
Population of U.S. = ~337M
Population of Canada = ~41M
@@toddstevens13 it got beach everywhere so the fitness level is higher and everything is trying to kill them overthere so my guess is there is less couch slouch wellfair potato
How about places like the Netherlands with a population of 17.5 million? 34. St Lucia - 800,000 people 2 medals!!!!!
The best part about Summer Mcintosh ... she's only 17. She's already the world record holder in the 400m individual medley, went nearly 3 seconds slower than her world record, and still won by 6 seconds. She's also shown potential in both the 200m freestyle (led off the relay at last year's World Championships with a time that would have won individual gold), and the 800m freestyle (earlier this year, she became the first person ever to beat Katie Ledecky in the event on any level since 2011).
I can see Summer as she matures, mid 20's if she wants to, continue stretching out her distances, it is obvious she needs and wants intense input, and it would give her something to strive for. Hopefully she can get a large sponsorship deal, if she does not have one already, which she wholeheartedly deserves so she doesn't have to leave the sport like so many have to. It is not often, "a natural" comes around.
If I'm not mistaken, she turns 18 tomorrow. Happy birthday 2024 summer Olympics’ Queen!
I remember the moment when I realized who she was and how good she is. Back in 2017 we had a new family in the club that had moved from the US. I was asked who the top girl was in the distance events & said probably a girl from Etobicoke. Looked it up and there was the name Summer Mcintosh.
Summers mother Jill McIntosh (née Horstead) specialized in the 200 meter butterfly Los Angeles 1984
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Note: Summer McIntosh trains in ... the US. (She's smart.)
Celine Dion also got our first gold medal of the Games at the Opening Ceremonies.
Ngl, everytime I hear Celine Dion, I think of the Love Guru with Mike Myers and on Justin Timberlake's part he likes Celine Dion and say it in a really bad French Canadian accent it you ask me 😂😂😂💀
Remember the time she got the Quebec gov't to shell out money for her hubby's funeral who was a billionaire? Can't stand her music, can't stand her voice and can't stand the fact that she would take even one cent for his funeral to help her pay his costs, especially considering he wasn't even Canadian.
@@markastoforoff7838 I remember that the Quebec government originally wanted to hold a provincial funeral and pay it all. Celine didn't "get them" to pay anything. Due to the expense, they contributed 7% and his estate paid the remaining 93%. He was born in Montreal. You're entitled to your own opinion, not your own fiction. NEXT!
@@markastoforoff7838 Not liking her music/singing is fine, not everyone's a fan. The rest of your comment is pure nonsense.
@@styphstro4925 Yes, these are the facts.
We embarassed the U.S. in the Mens 4 x 100 relay. Earlier this year the Americans were asked what they thought about the Canadians and they replied, "Who?". When the interviewer said, "Canada", they again said "Who?" and then started laughing. Looks like Canada's team got the last laugh. I don't think the Americans even made the podium.
They got disqualified 😂😂😂
There’s a fine line between self-confidence and arrogance. I saw several American athletes cross that line (as I’m sure other nationalities but here, in Canada, we see more of American TV)
In MY naked Canadian eyes😳👁👁, arrogance is just the culture of usa MEN'S track & field. I doubt they were even "embarrassed", as you say. The USA men always come up with a way to excuse their losses. Just saying!😇
@@kflowersmith The Canadians did NOT get the last laugh. They never laugh at Americans, because they always want to be "nice" to them. Rolling my naked eyes 👀.
@@These2EyesDontLie I don't know, they were all smiles and laughter at the end of the race.
I am so proud of the Canadian athletes. They did an amazing job.
Never feel prouder to be Canadian than seeing my team at the Olympics. W2G EVERYONE! On a side note, the fact that Canada rose up and won the gold in breakdancing over countries like France, Britain, and the U.S., who are known to have massive breakers, is interesting.
Also many Asian countries have some great breakers
You can’t be sat the Wiz!
@@alphaallnightgaming7885 in English, please?
Breakdancing in Olympics was just wrong. Some of these events are crazy.
@@lorrainestade6718 There have been crazier... live pigeon shooting, anyone?
Summer McIntosh is only 17, so she has a bright future.
I have to admire the Canadian athletes who stick with it. Their funding is low and they never make as much post-medaling as an American athlete would. Most have to fit in work at regular jobs while training to be best in the world. That's dedication.
@@user-fj5qf7gt6n they have sponsors same as your athletes
It's admirable how Canada slipped from 11th in Tokyo to 12th in Paris....
(Missed the Top 10 even at the 2022 Winter Games.)
@@user-kq5ke5yb6k if you notice the table of the medal counts- it all has to do with the total number of GOLD medals a country has. A country can have a greater total of medals overall…but if your gold medal count is lower, even if by one, the country is ranked lower.
@@user-fj5qf7gt6n Thank you. Sadly so true when you think, for example, of swimmer Summer McIntosh potentially becoming a female Michael Phelps. It is relative to Canada having 1/10 of the population of the USA. From a Canadian who has lived and worked in both countries.
I'm Canadian and didn't know we play Rugby too lol... and yeah, Summer Mcintosh is a swimming superstar. She's just 17 years old!
🤦♀️ I did! I have 3 cousins who play
My high school had 5 teams. It was by far the most popular sport in terms of players. Viewership goes to hockey every time.
that’s wild to me bc here in ottawa it’s pretty popular in high schools, for guys and for girls.
@@annabelledrake2027 never see that sport in Quebec
@@XxKidnoffxX oh that makes sense that it’s less popular in quebec. In Ontario it’s pretty popular. At Carleton University our women’s rugby games get more fans and are more hype than our men’s football games
Canada always does much better at the Winter Olympics!
Winter Olympics are by far better than the Summer anyway so I'll take it. I don't even follow the Summer Olympics
@@williammartin2349 Rolling my naked eyes 👀. Then why are you here?? LOL
@@These2EyesDontLie I always watch all of Tyler's videos
@@williammartin2349 👁️👁️
@@These2EyesDontLie In between rolling your naked eyes, do you always delete a naked comment when you realize you made a naked a$$ out of yourself? 🤣
I guess it makes sense that there would be awesome Canadian swimmers as we have all the lakes. 😂
If you watch the breaking you will see it is highly athletic.
I don't see any difference between breaking and gymnastics floor routines other than (a) breaking is more interesting, and (b) there's music for both men and women.
4x100 relay Gold was amazing Tyler. Please watch that race. You’ll laugh at the Americans for botching another Olympics race.
Sorry America, we in Canada, on top of 22 and 1/2 hours a day for the entire Olympics on Over the Air channel CBC, we also have the CBC streaming service GEM having almost every event, and every final on the Olympic Calendar there, and the CBC also showed most events either partially or the Finals on UA-cam up here. So if you missed anything try to find GEM. Now Canadian events were shown most importantly, but as in the Past, Tournament Games in Team sports, etc., for most countries were shown during the overnight sessions, so we fired up our DVR's and had at it. Nothing like Team Pairs Badminton, European Handball , Table Tennis etc. to wile away the 11pm to-3:30am time slots with, for as you said every 4 years we all love watching the "non normalized" North American sports. Then from 4am on (10am in Paris) on back to the Live coverage. Fast forward through the commercials and hope your DVR doesn't get tired...
Before work in the morning and on my days off I tuned into any sports that seemed interesting or whatever was on 😎 even if canada wasn't competing in an event I'd still watch it
I just replay full events on the website.
And you can "double" it as everything described above is also available in French (given two official languages in Canada)... and some events were available in First Nations languages ... at times, I "watched/followed" multiple concurrent events leveraging the TV, laptop, smart phone :) Not missing anything !
@@AnikRichard Well stated. Just finished up watching some of the Overnight coverage, so have room again on my DVR for the Para-Olympics but sadly think there will be much less coverage of those
@@chapmau me too ~ replays ~ love the surfing event where we had our first canadian ever ~ sanora from tofino ~ carolyn marks from usa is my favrite ~
The fact that Summer McIntosh was spectacular is more impressive since she is only 17, just beginning.
US networks seldom show any sport unless they think they can win a medal. Canada finished 4th a dozen times.
We could have won 39 medals
Another comment I feel I need to add is that the CBC sports does a great job of showing ALL events even if there are no Canadians competing. However they will show events that Canadians are in over other events live, but will show those other events later.
So if you want a more complete coverage of all sports in any Olympic broadcast, you are better off watching CBC coverage as compared to ESPN, TSN or whatever other North American broadcasters, not sure about the BBC coverage or ABC (Australian) or Deutsche Welle broadcasting.
I was using CBC gem to watch it and on their Paris homepage they would mention if canada is competing in anything, and if they weren't there was still a big list of all the live/upcoming events and could watch whatever, it was pretty nice
Also, when streaming on the CBC app, it was possible to access the event history and watch any of those events.
Wow seeing this made me realize the women were on fire in these olympics 😮 great job girls!
The inclusion of the sport of break was a test (as all new contemporary sports starts out as) and before the Olympics were finished the IOC had decided that breaking was not going to be permanent. So our Canadian gold medal winner will be the only one in history.
Even tho I know that Raygun wasn’t a good example of break dancing the others were phenomenal! I admit I was a bit skeptical when I heard it was first being introduced in the olympics but I grew to like the idea. Just think, it’s pretty much like gymnastics, it has elements of rhythmic, pommel horse and floor in there. So for those still criticizing, think on that. Also, it’s actually harder than it looks, as a kid I tried to do a few moves but could not do it, even as I took gymnastics. It’s not something everyone can do.
I feel that I must add this. The US may not see some of these events in between Olympics, however Canada DOES get to see at least some of these events between Olympics simply because of CBC sports coverage. I know I have seen several of these 'outlier' sports in CBC's "Wild World of Sports" back in the day. Also with the Commonwealth Games, and several of the other global sports gatherings that occur between Olympics, the CBC and to a lesser extent TSN cover many of these sporting events.
It is true though that during the Olympics, several of these sports get extended coverage, but even local sporting events are covered. Like the Indigenous games have been covered both by CBC and TSN.
canada got to see ALL of the events via cbc ~ strange tho for the 2010 vancouver olympics CTV was there & not cbc ~
Yay for Canadians women's rowing team winning silver
Skylar Park comes from a taekwondo family, there are 16 black belts in her family. Her two younger brothers are on the rise. Maude Charron who won the silver in weight lifting won gold in Tokyo, but her category got cut so she completed in a lower weight category. She trains alone in her garage.
My sister was the RMT for the Canadian Swim Team.
I followed Canada's olympic journey very closely this time and was super proud of Canadian Athletes. My personal heartbreak moment was Canadian women losing the Beach Volleyball final match as they ended up getting silver instead of Gold. Those girls were stars. Specially proud of Canadian women Soccer team too
The gold in breakdancing was a gift to the Canadian hip-hop community after a rough summer licking their wounds over the Drake/Kendrick Lamar feud. I just thought thank gawd we weren't the Australian breakdancers. 😮
Drake took that loss, not Canada. He's not like us.
@@ericwickman920 true. true.
The Summer of Summer 🏅🏅🏅
We are good at the hammer throw because we don't carry guns... LOL. hehehehehehhe
We got lots of these guns though 💪
Break dancing is extremely athletic.
What impresses me each time, is Australia. Their population is 75% of Canada, yet they earned double the medals. Their sports programs must know something we in Canada don't.
The really hot nation does better at summer events than the nation that's covered in snow 4 months a year? That's not really shocking to me.
Dont forget where more of a winter sport nation and we got alot more medals than Australia at winters Olympics, its nice Australia plays ice hockey over there.
Based on the fact we brought only around 150 athletes we did very well
@hockeyaddict7007 when you google it the first thing that comes up is 126 athletes in the paralympic. A person could've easily got that mixed up
Phil Wizard deserves a Canadian Heritage Minute lmao
Olympics how U.S. athletes differ from Canadian athletes. This is only my personal opinion. It seems to me if an American doesn't win gold he/she/they consider themselves a loser, silver and bronze don't mean the same to Americans. Canadians are often super excited to get to the podium, whether it be bronze, silver or gold. Noah Lyles is an example of a trash talking, arrogant competitor. At the 2024 worlds he trashed the Canadian relay team. Guess what the Canadians won gold. Good on them. Obviously all athletes competing want to do well but at the end of the day doing your best should be what it's all about. I am sure funding will me mentioned in the comments and the lack of it compared to the U.S. where they hand out scholarships like candy with stars like Lyles flaunting their wealth with cars and luxury items.
Thank you for complimenting Canada’s accomplishments in the Olympics ❤ from Canada 🇨🇦
My daughter travelled to California for a rugby tournament 10 years ago. It was an amazing trip for our Canadian girls
Canada has their best ever non-boycotted Olympics this year. Their best ever Olympics were the 1984 Los Angeles games but that's because those games were boycotted.
Yep! 1984 was only the second time Canada ever placed in the top 5 countries in the medal standings.
I think that we ( Canada ) are stronger in winter sports
Dude, the US has a professional rugby league.
Break dancing is akin to tumbling in gymnastics but probably harder
When looking at summer and winter combined, Canada is really quite impressive along with the Netherlands
The Australian was "original"....She moved her arms like windmills and mimicked a kangaroo. She also spun on her head a little. And kinda rolled on her stomach a bit. But she got a zero score from the judges. Harsh. Perhaps unsurprisingly there will be no breaking in the LA Olympics.
I'm glad Tyler recognized that Canada did well in the Olympics. We had only a small number of athletes that qualified in the handful of sports we were in. The US seems to play the numbers game and send the maximum amount of athletes permitted per sport. I don't like that the Olympics are not for amateur athletes like it was ages ago. The US had a stacked NBA team, most other countries had a sprinkling of NBA players or none at all. For those who train their butts off, don't get to go, but the ones who make millions as their professional job get to go... Make millions and get a gold medal sounds completely unfair for those that spend their time and hard earned money for the sport they love.
a good rule of thumb is usually the US has just under (a couple years ago it was almost exactly) ten times the population of canada so you could round just about anything up by ten and it would usually make sense. good showing here by canada.
Not quite - 345+ million (us) ÷ 41+ million (can) = 8.4 times(2024) but Canada's still bigger landwise✌🇨🇦
@@wjdietrich okay smarty pants. look up what the population of canada was five years ago.
Canada is a better winter Olympic Country
@@angelinashankle75It is a fact. Canada won the most golds in Vancouver 2010 winter Olympics.
@@Ryan-yi5ro In fact, Canada won the most gold medals of any country at a Winter Olympics (the previous record was 13, tied between the USSR in 1976 and Norway in 2002).
@@angelinashankle75 WHAT????? Why not?
@@angelinashankle75 Don't be insulted, it's something to be proud of.
@angelinashankle75 Canada does better in the Winter Olympics. I said it again!
We're good at hammer throw because we have the longest undefended border...
Some of the sports don't exist because not enough countries have it happening. I believe that's true of Lacrosse, it is huge in some countries, but not enough countries have the sport in them. Though it is "coming back" in 2028.
Lacrosse is actually one of the sixteen official sports of the North American Indigenous Games.
If it is not hockey, Canada doesn't care
Lots of rugby in Canada. My hometown rugby league even had a naked men's meet every winter. Yes... naked. In the snow. The players had footwear and that's it. No idea why, but my best guess is that it started as a drunken dare then became a regular thing for laughs and ego. Not sure if the tradition continues today, but it carried on for some time in the 90's at least.
Wait till he look at our medal in witer olympic 😂
For fencing it was actually our first medal in fencing since the beginning of the olympics
Holy heck since beg Olympics
Canada is so great at the hammer throw because we’re all Lumberjacks too!😂
Rugby in Canada from wikipedia
Rugby football began to be played in Canada in the 1860s, and many of the first Canadian football teams played under the auspices of the Canadian Rugby Football Union (CRFU), founded in June 1880 then reorganized in February 1884.[6] The CRFU was reorganized as the Canadian Rugby Union (CRU) in 1891, and served as an umbrella organization for several provincial and regional unions. The Grey Cup was donated by Governor General the Earl Grey in 1909 to the team winning the "Senior Amateur Football Championship of Canada". By that time, the sport as played in Canada had diverged markedly from its rugby origins with the introduction of the Burnside rules, and started to become more similar to the American game.
They Became the CFL
Tigers and wildcats merged to become Ti-Cats Oskee Wee Wee
The first organized football club in Canada was the Hamilton Foot Ball Club, a predecessor of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, in 1869. This was followed by the formation of the Montreal Foot Ball Club in 1872, the Toronto Argonaut Football Club in 1873 and the Ottawa Football Club (the future Ottawa Rough Riders) in 1876.
Winnipeg Rugby Football Bluebombers
The Roughriders were founded in 1910 as the Regina Rugby Club. (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
I agree. What is breaking doing in the Olympics?
It was just a test to see if there was interest.
@@visaman In my naked eyes 👀, there is none.... And my eyes 👀 are Canadian!😇
Thank you for being part of our cheering squad :)
Canada has a great Olympic heritage from the 1976 summer games in Montreal. Most of the installations are still available for the athletes to train and there is a huge pride in this. What is also great in any olympic event is that all Canadian athletes compete together: The french and english canadians smiling at each other and competing for the honor of our country.
I'm Canadian😇, and in MY naked eyes😳👁👁, Montreal 1976 remains a huge embarrassment for us. Because it will forever be the only Olympics where the host country won zero gold medals!😲Rolling my naked eyes.👀
Not sure what it is like now but in BC Rugby was the sport played in Junior High & High School over Football in the 70s & 80s - in the 70s out Junior High team would go play in Whales & England . edit = Rugby 7s is a cool sport to watch .
i graduated 2005 and we played rugby at least up until 2003 (i went to an alternative school for a couple years so things were a bit different at the end there)
Break dancing when done right is extremely athletic, they train like boxers to build core strength 💪... very tough discipline
Rugby, or THUGBY as I call it, is very popular in Canada. High school and university/college rugby is both for boys and girls.
As well, the 27 medals seta record for us in a non-boycotted Olympics. ❤️🇨🇦
Canadian football has its roots from Rugby
So proud of bluenoser Ellie Black… four Olympic Games for a gymnast should be celebrated. She’s an amazing example to up and coming athletes… watching her being congratulated by coaches and athletes from other countries… and her consoling and celebrating the successes of her competitors shows just how stellar she is
I'm a Canadian barefoot gymnast🦵👣, and in MY naked eyes😳👁👁, she is sadly another example of the "nice" Canadian Olympian, who will never win a medal, because it's in the #1 glamour sport (women's gymnastics). American Simone Biles spoiled it for her at the last Olympics, and we Canadians are expected to just keep being "nice", and settling for... nothing
Summer McIntosh is the first ever Canadian to get 3 gold medals at a single Olympic Games and she was only 17 years old, she's 18 now.
Other than McIntosh, one of the highlights of these Olympics for me was Eleanor Harvey winning Canada's first ever bronze medal in any fencing event with her bronze in the women's foil, I had never watched fencing before but she's got me quite interested in the sport.
Rugby is big in our Atlantic Provines. I went to University in New Brunswick and it was pretty popular there, although football and hockey are still more so. It makes sense we are good at swimming and canoeing/rowing as we have two oceans, the great lakes, and many other lakes and rivers. We have lots of public swimming pools and swimming lessons for kids are popular here because we have so many waterways and parents don't want their kids drowning. Track and field events also make sense as our high schools push track events in gym class and all have track teams as well.
The physicality of breaking is insane, it definitely qualifies as a sport, as does any competitive level of dancing
The problem with truly artistic sports is that there needs to be pretty strict guidelines for scoring purposes. Gymnastics for example has a book of all the possible skills, and for some events are given a checklist that they have to hit. I don't know what they had for the break dancing, but if they didn't set up good parameters beforehand then it was doomed to fail especially when someone comes in making a mockery of it under the guise of creative interpretation
That Aussie Raygun really the 1 who made sure that breakdancing isn't going to be a permanent fixture for the Olympics.
I'm just smh at her antics......she supposedly have a PhD for breakdancing & teaching it as a professor in a university. I can't help wondering if she even watched real moves for breakdancing from visiting the places that has it to the movies.
Thx for highlighting our achievements, Tyler! I know you just want to make videos quickly, but I kinda wish you would have done some background research on some of these achievements for your American friends...
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Yes, Rugby is popular in Canada. They start in high school. It's our British heritage that brought it to Canada.
My high school only had rugby and soccer teams, the first time I moved to a city and actually saw people wearing full football gear it was really weird, one of those “only seen this in movies” moments.
Canada typically excels in the Winter Olympics, and have actually finished ahead of the US in at least two of the last three Winter games with Speed Skating being the event that we generally excel at.
Just wait until the Winter Olympics!! Canada is fantastic!!! ❤❤❤.
We are also very good at finishing fourth in a lot of the sports.
Where I grew up in Nova Scotia, we didn’t have football teams at school. We had rugby teams.
Another topic....could you play Anne Murray singing The Maple Leaf Forever. At one time it was supposed to be our national Anthem..There are also bands and other singers as well, it is an amazing song!!!!! Thank you !
Lovin it from Toronto Canada 🇨🇦
Poor Canada.
In Tokyo, 11th; in Paris, 12th (behind the likes of Australia, The Netherlands & NZ).
At the 2022 Winter Olympics? Missed the Top 10.
Alot of Canadians are mad about the break dancing in the Olympics though good for boy who got the gold.
In MY naked Canadian eyes😳👁👁, it seems a bit dumb to have that "sport" in there, but hey, winning a gold is kinda nice. Breaking will disappear from the Olympics within the next decade
I was going to tell you to check out the hammer throwing clip. He threw it so far the one alone was enough to win. It was a new world record.
Where I grew up we had a rugby high school team and some of the nastiest rivalries. Until the school closed down.
Sports I would like to see as an olympic sport but isn't and olympic sport:
-inline hockey
-ball hockey
-North American football
-field and box lacrosse (field is more popular but I find box lacrosse more fun to watch)
-10 pin bowling. (Not sure about 5 pin. It's nearly everywhere in Canada but I'm not sure how big it is internationally).
If wishes were horses, we could eat horse meat every day. Having said that, if the traditional events, that Canada has become known for, had held for in these games, the Canadian medal count would have been closer to 35. The fact that a new high total was reached was due to some unexpected performances in beach volleyball, mens 400 relay, wrestling, and rowing, as well as the double gold in hammer throw. The disappointing results were in the pool, on the soccer pitch, basketball court, in the boxing ring and cycling.
Both the Canadian Men's and Women's Hammer throw winners are the current World Champions.
Maude Charron who won the Silver in Weightlifting also won the Gold in Tokyo.
I didn't consider breaking an athletic event. Suddenly, for some odd reason, now I love it. I think the medal helps me legitimize this as a sport in my Canadian brain. 😊
P.S. I can't believe the USA didn't win this. Aren't you guys the inventors?
Summer McIntosh was only 17 years old during the games. She turned 18 after the games ended.
That's Felix Auger-Aliassime. He's been the next rising star for Canada in the ATP for the past couple years. Leyla Anne Fernandez has been our rising star in the WTA (women's equivalent to the ATP) as of late.
I just saw this and had to click on it... I'm expecting a lot of "They have break dancing in Canada?"
Typical Tyler stuff. I hope I can add this to his greatest hits.
"Canada has goats?"
"Canada has cowboys?"
"Canada has mountains?"
Rugby is pretty popular here in Canada.
I graduated 25 years ago, I lived in a city that only had boys rugby, but not football, and football for girls buy not boys.
Then I moved to another province and was befriended by a rugby player. Back then this school had no rugby, but the Rugby Union was allowed to recruit from the schools.
Now days rugby is in all highschools. It is exponentially more fun than football both to play and watch
Summer Mcintosh is on 17 years old and won those swimming metals.
The reason our swimmers are so good is in Canada lots of outdoor cannot be played because we are well bellow 32F for 6 to 8 months. Swimming can be practiced year round due to indoor pools running year round.
Side note at 8:43 is that it came down to a photo finish
only winning by 1/100 of a second
Break dancing is no weirder than synchronized swimming or ice dancing.
Susan Macintosh is from Toronto
We're good at hammer throw cuz we are strong . Period
Summer McIntosh is only 17 years of age
Just saying you are so American! Don't mock success my friend. Keep an open mind. I know that's hard for your closed minds! Hello
Summer is 17 years old. Lots more to come.
Please look up The Last Timbit
It’s a musical and I’m not kidding
I kind of wish Americans would focus on "medals per capita" so see how actually terrible they are compared to other countries.
Canada did well at water sports (we have a lot of water) AND fighting (judo, taekwando, hammer throws) & running.
You don't want to mess with Canada, we can take you down if we want - on land or in the water. 😄
They do well with the hammer throw due to all the practice with the snow throw.
As a Canadian, I agree with your point and the way you were kind about it. I say - Break Dancing in The Olympics? Level 12 dumb idea. For accuracy, focus and concentration as with target shooting -- better to have darts. (And idiot can lie down and spin around.) I say anything that has NO AIDS. (Like music)... has no place in The Olympics. Ever heard of Marathon?
Canada got the first and maybe only gold medal for b-boys this year since it's not in the 2028 Olympics in LA.
Breaking involves a lot of athleticism and is often about competition and battling so it is well-suited to the Olympics. It borrows a lot from martial arts and gymnastics.
@Tyler you should look at the past Olympics for Canada. I would recommend looking specifically at 2018
The hammer throw is very similar to Highland Games Strength events, and there were a number of Scottish folk that immigrated into Canada.
Best summer Olympic ever for Canada!
That's great I am very proud to be Canadian
I am canadian! I dont know why canadians bash americans ! they are our best ally! We are very alike Americans sitting in the stands! always cheer for canadians athletes > dont think canadians do the same!
From PIE an Islander was on silver medal ladies Rugby team in good medal game she scored a try same as a touchdown. A second lady from PIE lost Bronze medal match in Wrestling
do you mean PEI ?