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Canadian athletes were awarded a record total of 27 medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
What were your favourite Olympic moments, and what were your biggest disappointments?

Jake Lapierre - Conditioning Coach - Congratulations to all Canadian athletes who participated at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics and a BIG
THANK YOU goes out to the coaches, trainers, staff, sponsors, and of course, the parents, who all played a huge role in getting these Olympians
to Paris to compete.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach summed up the games eloquently in his closing speech stating, “The Olympic Games
Paris 2024 were a celebration of the athletes and of sport at its best.” He praised athletes, highlighting; “Your performances were simply amazing.
You competed fiercely against each other. Every contest on the edge of perfection. Every performance sparking excitement around the world.”

I believe Mr. Bach was spot on.
There were many memorable moments throughout the games, just to mention a few that comes to mind include; Camryn Rogers and Ethan Katzberg’s display of
power and balance in the hammer throw, Summer McIntosh with her amazing Olympic performance in the pool, the Canadian men 100-meter relay win, Armand
Mondo Duplantis world record 6.25-metre high pole vault, the athletics on the track with the hurdles, steeplechase, and so many other feats of speed, strength, and
agility; I enjoyed all of it.
Jim Riddell - Seaway Karate Club - The controversies alone kept the Paris Olympics entertaining. There seemed to be something almost every
day, but a few stood out.
Swimming has not been allowed in the Seine River for over one hundred years due to the high pollution content. Paris spent the equivalent of
$2B Cdn to clean the river up for the Olympics, only to have several athletes get sick following the swim portion of the triathlon. The “gender
issue” in ladies boxing was the biggest controversy, but it was much more a political issue than a gender one. The Russian dominated International
Boxing Association was banned by the IOC in 2019 because of corruption, match fixing, and financial scandals. Algerian boxer, Imane Khelif, was
suspended by the IBA shortly after she defeated a Russian boxer, on the claim that she failed an undisclosed gender evaluation test. Khelif, who
went on to win the gold medal, has an amateur record of 47 wins, 9 losses, with only 7 stoppages in her 56 fights - certainly not what she was made out to be on
social media.
The biggest disappointment was the penalty imposed on the Canadian Woman’s soccer team for using a drone to gather information on an opposing team. Athletes
and teams from all sports have always used creative means to gain an advantage - the penalty imposed on Canada by the IOC was likely as much for getting caught
as it was for the act itself.
Peter Collins - Sports Enthusiast - During this summer’s Olympics in Paris, we found out that Canadians can swim, dive, run, paddle, fight,
and most amazingly, throw a hammer. We are also adept at volleyball in the sand, rowing, fencing, tennis, and an obscure sport called breaking.
While the sports change and evolve, we can be proud that Canadians are well represented at the Olympics and our athletes compete very well on
the world stage. In times of social unrest, wars, and conflicts, we received a slight reprieve this summer and enjoyed many exceptional Olympic
moments.
Then there was the dirty water in the Seine River! Even though the city of Paris poured 1.5 billion dollars in it to clean it up, it still looked brown
and was at times bacteria laden. They almost had to change the first leg of the triathlon to snorkeling instead of swimming. Lastly, social media
raised it’s ugly and unintelligent head decrying that Algerian gold medal boxer, Iman Khalif, was not female. The innuendo idiots were sent back to their corner of
the ring when it was proven that Khalif was indeed born female. Paris is known as the City of Light, but maybe not always as the city of the enlightened.