Canada poised to turn Pan Am gold into Olympic tickets

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LIMA (Reuters) - Canada enjoyed the kind of gold medal afternoon at the Pan Am Games on Friday that the nation might normally expect to see from athletes wielding hockey sticks and slapping pucks

With four badminton golds and three silvers won, the Canadian national anthem was played so frequently over a stretch of a couple of hours at the Polideportivo 3 arena that even the Peruvians were humming along by the end.

Michelle Li, the top ranked Canadian in any event at number 12, took the women's singles crown for the third straight Games by stopping team mate Rachel Honderich 21-11 21-19. It was the kind of haul that lifted Canada from middle regions of the medal table all the way up into second place behind runaway leaders the United States.

Canada is the big fish in a small Pan American pond. Only one country from the region will qualify in each event for Tokyo and the results in Lima have Canadian officials convinced those spots are theirs.

 

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