The Tokyo Games are a day away from officially opening. Here’s how Team Canada is looking.two-time defending gold medalist Andy Murray of Britain in his Olympic debut, and he’s determined to not let his first Games experience distract him from the task at hand. “It’s an incredible challenge. That’s a match everyone will want to see,” the young tennis star said from Tokyo’s Ariake Tennis Park, where the tennis matches begin on Saturday. “I love opening matches like this.
in Olympic softball in Fukushima. Abbott was clinging to a one-run lead when she walked Canada’s Jen Gilbert leading off the sixth inning, and pinch-hitter Sara Groenewegen lined a 0-2 pitch to the right-centre field gap. Centre fielder Haylie McCleney picked up the ball at the wall and fired to Ali Aguilar. The second baseman made a perfect one-hop throw to catcher Aubree Munro, who moved up the third-base line and swiped a tag on sliding pinch-runner Joey Lye for the out.
Canada’s rowers had been all but shut out of the medals on the murky waters of Rio de Janeiro’s urban Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon at the 2016 Olympics. But Canada is heading into the Tokyo Olympics with 10 boats in the running – the most since its six-medal 1996 Atlanta Games – when competition begins Friday at Sea Forest Waterway.
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