Team Canada’s performance in Paris, by the numbers
The GIST: Closing Ceremony flag bearers swimmer Summer McIntosh and hammer thrower Ethan Katzberg carried the red and white out of Paris, capping off a record-breaking and unforgettable performance for Team Canada. Here are the highlights from the past two weeks, by the numbers:
9: That’s how many gold medals Team Canada snagged at these Games, breaking their record for a single Olympiad (not including the asterisked 1984 LA Games). All that glitters.
- The athlete that pushed them into record-breaking territory? Torontonian B-Boy Phil Wizard, who spun his way to the sport’s first-ever (and possibly only) gold medal on Saturday. Way to Step Up.
3: How many of those gold medals belong to the aforementioned 17-year-old swimming sensation McIntosh. That’s the most golds a Canadian has ever won at a single Olympics, summer or winter — and her additional silver ties her for the most medals (of any color) in a Summer Games.
2: The number of years Brandie Wilkerson and Melissa Humana-Paredes have played together on the international beach volleyball stage — which makes their surge to silver, Canada’s first Olympic medal in the sport, even more impressive.
37.50: How many seconds it took the men’s 4x100m relay team — Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, and Brendon Rodney — to race to gold and post the upset of the Games, a bright spot in an otherwise disappointing week on the track.
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