Today
is the second day of competition at Rio
2016!
The following sports activities (preliminaries) are
running today, so far:
·
Men’s indoor volleyball --> France vs. Italy
·
Women’s rugby sevens --> Canada vs. Great Britain & Canada vs. France
o
(Canada made it to the quarter-finals
and won!)
o
(Canada made it to the semi-finals)
·
Women’s road race cycling --> 237.5 km (?)
·
Women’s gymnastics --> balance beam (China), vault (China), uneven bars (China), floor exercise
(China), balance beam (Uzbekistan), vault (Uzbekistan), floor exercise
(Australia), vault (Korea)
o
(there will be more later today – incl.
Ellie Black of Canada)
·
Women’s
swimming --> 100 m backstroke heats (FINAL is
tomorrow)
·
Women’s
swimming --> 100 m breaststroke heats (FINAL is
tomorrow)
·
Women’s diving --> 3 m (springboard) synchro (final)
o
(incl. Jennifer Abel and Pamela Ware of
Canada)
o
(Canada came fourth)
·
Men’s beach volleyball --> Canada vs. USA & Canada vs. Latvia
o
(Latvia won)
·
Men’s
swimming --> 200 m freestyle heats
·
Men’s
swimming --> 100 m backstroke heats (FINAL is
tomorrow)
·
Women’s
swimming --> 400 m freestyle heats
o
(incl.
Emily Overholt of Canada)
o
(FINAL
is tonight – Emily Overholt made it)
·
Men’s
swimming --> 4 x 100 m freestyle heats
·
Men’s
swimming FINALS --> 100 m butterfly, 100 m
breaststroke, and 400 x 100 m freestyle relay tonight
o
(Michael
Phelps of the USA will be competing as the second leg in the relay)
o
(USA
won the relay)
·
Men’s indoor volleyball --> Canada vs. USA
o
(Canada won)
·
Women’s gymnastics --> balance beam (Canada --> 4), floor exercise (Canada --> 4), vault (Canada --> 4), uneven bars (Canada --> 4) --> Canada came 9th overall and thus, missed qualifying for the TEAM
FINALS.
o
(Ellie Black, Isabela Onyshko, Rose Woo,
Brittany Rogers, and Shallon Olsen are all competing for Canada)
o
(of these 5, only Ellie Black and
Isabela Onyshko qualified for the all-around competition; Shallon Olsen made it
to the vault final, and Isabela Onyshko made it to the balance beam final)
·
Women’s
100 butterfly FINAL
o
(incl.
Penny Oleksiak of Canada à came second and won a SILVER MEDAL,
her second medal for Canada!)
·
Men’s beach volleyball --> Canada vs. Latvia
·
Women’s tennis
o
(the Williams sisters lost and are out for
the first time ever!)
I went to Markham
Station restaurant (at Markham Rd. and Sheppard Ave. E.) for dinner. I didn’t enjoy my dinner all that much, but I
loved the Pina Colada drink I had and the New York cheese cake I took back home
with me. I don’t think I’m going to be
going back there anytime soon.
copyright 2016 - Anne Shier
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