RIO DE JANEIRO – Divers Roseline Filion and Meaghan Benfeito kept Canada's decoration streak going at the Rio Summer Games with another bronze award.
Filion, of Laval, Que., and Benfeito, of Montreal, were third in the ladies' 10-meter synchronized jumping occasion Tuesday. They were fifth heading into the last round, yet a messed up jump by the North Koreans gave Filion and Benfeito an opening for a platform wrap up.
What's more, they nailed it on their last jump – an internal 3 1/2 somersault – for a score of 80.64 focuses to complete with 336.18 by and large behind two Chinese groups. Filion and Benfeito, who were bronze medallists four years back in London, gave Canada its fourth bronze decoration and fifth by and large.
"It was insane. We knew we required a truly a decent jump on the last one to have a chance at the platform," Filion said. "We went up there truly quiet, took a gander at each other and let each know other, 'We got this', and we wound up with an incredible last jump."
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Canada's exclusive non-bronze decoration additionally came in the pool, a silver caught by 16-year-old Penny Oleksiak in the ladies' 100-meter butterfly last on Sunday. Canadian competitors have won no less than one decoration on every day of rivalry as such.
Filion and Benfeito make up half of the "Fab IV" on Canada's plunging group. Filion, Benfeito, Jennifer Abel and Pamela Ware all have decoration potential in Rio as Abel and Ware missed the platform in the three-meter synchro by not exactly a point.
"Fab" is an acronym – F for Filion, A for Abel, B for Benfeito, and the Roman numeral IV is an adapted W for Ware. Each of the four ladies will now move their center to the individual occasions.
The opposition was held outside interestingly since the 1992 Barcelona Games. Be that as it may, the shade of the water in the pool Tuesday was a rotten green and there was no quick word on what brought about the shading change.
Canada will have an opportunity to win another award in the pool Tuesday night as Sydney Pickrem contends in the ladies' 200-meter singular variety last.
In the mean time in Brasilia, the Canadian ladies' soccer group exorcized a few evil presences with a 2-1 win over Germany to finish up the preparatory round. Melissa Tancredi had both objectives as Canada withstood a late blast from the second-positioned Germans to enhance to 3-0-0 to complete on Group F. All the more significantly, Canada earned its first win in 13 diversions against Germany.
"I am only glad for this group," Tancredi said. "To have the capacity to put two objectives past a level one rival and truly express our spot in this competition is truly colossal for us."
Both groups had effectively secured quarter-last billets. The Canadians will play the runner-up in Group G on Friday in Sao Paulo.
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Canadian judo contender Antoine Valois-Fortier missed the mark in his offer for a brief moment straight Olympic bronze decoration. A third-put finisher four years back in London, the 26-year-old from Quebec City lost his repechage match to Japan's Takanori Nagase in the men's 81-kilogram occasion.
A win would've put Valois-Fortier into a bronze decoration standoff against Italian Matteo Marconcini.
"I can't trust I made each one of those penances just to complete seventh," said a distressed Valois-Fortier. "I set everything aside – my family, my better half, my studies."
Subsequent to having a first-round bye, Valois-Fortier started the opposition with wins over France's Loic Pietri and Argentina's Emmanuel Lucenti. In any case, he lost his third-round match to Russian Khasan Khalmurzaev to drop to the repechage.
In tennis, Toronto's Daniel Nestor will have a chance at another platform complete 16 years subsequent to winning Canada's lone Olympic tennis award to date.
Nestor teamed with Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil to cruise past the Italian duo of Fabio Fognini and Andreas Seppi 6-3, 6-1 in the men’s doubles quarter-finals.
Nestor teamed with Sebastien Lareau to upset the favoured Australian duo of Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde in the men’s doubles final of the 2000 Sydney Games.
“We played a great match, very crisp.” Nestor said. “We’re hitting the ball great, both of us. We were all over them and we didn’t let the foot off the pedal.”
Nestor and Pospisil will face Spain’s Rafael Nadal and Marc Lopez in the semifinal on Wednesday. The Spanish duo beat Austria’s Oliver Marach and Alexander Peya in straight sets in another quarter-final.
The women’s doubles team wasn’t as lucky, as Eugenie Bouchard and Gaby Dabrowski were eliminated after a 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-4 loss to Czechs Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova. The match was a see-saw battle, most notably in the eighth game of the third set.
Bouchard and Dabrowski had several opportunities to break serve down 4-3, but ultimately could not overcome Safarova and Strycova who held on to win the match.
Safarova and Strycova opened the tournament with a huge upset win over defending Olympic champions Serena and Venus Williams of the U.S.
Canada’s swimmers missed the podium for the first time at the Games, with Sydney Pickrem finishing sixth in the women’s 200-metre individual medley. But they’ll get another chance after Santo Condorelli of Kenora, Ont., finished second in his men’s 100 freestyle semifinal, qualifying fourth for the final.
The Canadian men’s field hockey team suffered a 7-0 setback to the Netherlands. The Dutch (2-0-1) moved into second in Pool B behind Germany (3-0) while Canada (0-3) is tied for last with Ireland (0-3).
It marked the first time in the tournament that Canada has been shut out after suffering losses of 6-2 to Germany and 3-1 to Argentina.
The Canadians resume action Thursday facing Ireland, which lost 3-2 to Germany on Tuesday.
After missing the London Olympics four years ago, Canada qualified for the Rio Games with a fourth-place finish at the International Hockey Federation’s World League semifinal in Argentina last June.
Canada’s Ben Saxton and Chaim Schalk earned a three-set win over Brazilians Evandro Goncalves Oliveira Junior and Pedro Solberg in men’s beach volleyball. After losing their opener Sunday, the Canadians will conclude pool play Wednesday against Cubans Nivaldo Nadhir Diaz Gomez and Sergio Reynaldo Gonzalez Bayard.
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