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Canadians will be able to follow Team Canada athletes in several competitions over the Canada Day long weekend.
Canadian athletes will participate in the Diamond League on the European side, but others will also compete on home soil at the Continental Silver Round meeting in Edmonton. The best Canadian trampoline players will take part in the World Cup in Portugal.
On Saturday, the eyes of all road cycling fans will be on Bilbao, where Pedal’s first stroke of the 110 Tour de France will take place. Building on last year’s successes, three Canadian cyclists, members of the same professional team, will compete in strategy, combat and speed. With the best in the world for the next 23 days.
Canadian rowers also have a history with history at England’s most prestigious Henley Royal Regatta. For its part, the Canadian women’s basketball team will take an important step towards final qualification for the next Olympic Games.
Here are five sports in which Canadian athletes will compete with the best in the world in the coming days.
Sports Games
two meetings l Diamond League It will take place this weekend. The prestigious athletics circuit stops in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Friday, and then in Stockholm, Sweden, on Sunday. On Swiss soil, Alesha Newman will compete in the women’s pole vault event, while Aaron Brown and Andre de Grasse will start in the men’s 200m.
The event has been presented three times this season at the Diamond League and Aaron Brown has won two bronze medals. He reached the podium in the two meetings where he was on the starting line, namely in Doha on May 5 and Florence on June 2, which allows him to temporarily occupy third place in the general classification of the Diamond qualifications. To determine the participants in the season finale that will take place during Prefontaine Classic In Eugene, Oregon in September. For his part, de Grasse is still looking for his first podium of the season on the track, who finished sixth in the Doha event and fifth in Oslo. He is currently ninth in the Diamond League qualifying standings for the men’s 200m.
The two Canadian runners will hit the track again Sunday in Sweden for their first 100m of the season on this circuit. De Grasse showed a good run earlier this week, clocking 10.21 seconds to finish third in the men’s 100m at the Golden Spike in Ostrava on Tuesday, his best time of the season.
Other Canadian athletes will be in action at home as leg up World Athletics Silver Tour It will take place in Edmonton on Sunday. Canadian athletes to watch include shot putter Sarah Mitton, hammer throwers Camryn Rogers and Gillian Weir, pole vaulter Anika Newell, 800m specialist Marco Arup and high jumper Django Lovett.
trampoline
The city of Santarém, located on the banks of the Tagus River in Portugal, will host a stage of Trampoline World Cup Fig End of this week. Canadians Gabriela Flynn, Sarah Millet, Rachel Tam and Sofiane Mitoux will participate in the women’s individual event, while Keegan Sohn, Nathan Schuh, Jeremy Chartier and Remy Aubin will represent Canada in the men’s individual event.
At the last Worlds in Sofia, Chartier had the best Canadian result, finishing fifth. Remy Aubin was eighth.
Synchronized trampoline events, an event not on the Olympic programme, will also be offered as part of this competition. Sophiane Méthot and Sarah Milette will form a duo on the female side, as will Samantha Smith and Rachel Tam. In the simultaneous men’s event, Remy Aubin will team up with Jeremy Chartier, while Keegan Swain will battle Nathan Schuh.
The qualification of these two events takes place on Saturday and the finals on Sunday. The eight best athletes or pairs will advance to the finals, with a maximum of two athletes per country for individual finals and only one team per country for synchronized events.
Road cycling
Starting Tour de France It will be presented on Saturday in Bilbao, in the Spanish part of the Basque Country. The three cyclists who represented Canada at the men’s road cycling event in Tokyo 2020 will be part of Israel’s Premier Tech pro team: Mike Woods, Hugo Holly and Guillaume Boivin.
Hall fulfilled a long-awaited dream in the 2022 edition by winning the sixteenth stage of the Tour between Carcassonne and Foix, becoming the second Canadian athlete in history to win a stage of cycling’s most prestigious Grand Tour. Holly also finished third on stage 13.
The first three stages, which will take place in the Basque Country and which will offer a more technical course, suit Holly well, while the mountain courses of the fifth and sixth stages scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday should allow Woods to prove his qualities as a climber.
Hall will be competing in the Grande Boucle for the fifth time in his career this year, Woods will be competing for the fourth time, and Boivin will be competing for the third time on the Tour.
The 2023 Tour de France will run until July 23 and consist of 21 stages with a total of 3,404 kilometres. As has been the norm since 1975, the twenty-first and final stage of the iconic cycling tour will conclude on the Champs-Elysées in Paris.
Rowing
Nine Canadian crews from a total of 35 aircraft manufacturers participate in the festival Henley Royal Regatta Until Sunday in Henley-on-Thames, England. This year’s edition gathers the largest number of participants in the history of the famous regatta and takes place over six days. This regatta, rich in 184 years of history, takes place on the waters of the River Thames and starts from the magnificent setting of Temple Island, a small island in the middle of this emblematic waterway.
In order to respect the traditions of this competition, most Canadian kits do not wear the country’s colours, but rather those of their respective clubs.
Henley Royal Regatta features a direct elimination system, as is generally the case in competitions in a tournament format. Teams compete against each other while the winners of each stage advance in the elimination table.
Canadian boats have had success in this great rowing event over the years, with the men’s eight winning a scull Grand Challenge Cup In 2008 eight ladies get their hands on Remenham Challenge Cup in 2015.
The Open Class Qualifiers started on Wednesday and will continue on Thursday. The quarter-finals will be played on Friday, the semi-finals on Saturday and the finals on Sunday. here List of Canadian boats and athletes who will compete.
Basketball
Canada’s women’s basketball team will take an important step toward Olympic qualification for Paris 2024 this weekend.FIBA Copa America Women’s Basketball 2023 which will be held in Leon, Mexico from July 1-9.
This tournament is the most important women’s basketball meeting in the Americas and pits the top ten teams in this region. With the United States already securing qualification for the next Olympics, the team, excluding the United States, with the best result in this tournament would automatically earn a place in the FIBA Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Which will take place in February 2024.
The ten teams are divided into two round-robin groups. In Group B, Canada will face Mexico on Sunday at 10:10 PM ET, followed by Puerto Rico (Monday at 10:10 PM ET), Colombia (Tuesday at 7:40 PM ET) and the Dominican Republic (Wednesday at 4:40 PM ET). Eastern time). The top four teams from each group will advance to the quarter-finals on Friday 7 July. The semi-finals will be played on Saturday, July 8, followed by the title and third place on Sunday, July 9.
Canada is looking for its fourth Copa America title. The country won the tournament for the first time in 1995 and then won back-to-back in 2015 and 2017. The Canadian team achieved its best finish in the FIBA Basketball World Cup for Women since 1986 last September when it finished fourth. She is currently ranked 5th in the FIBA Women’s World Ranking.
