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The staff secured their Olympic berth final weekend with an 88-85 win over Spain. It was the primary time in 23 years that Canada has earned a spot on the video games in males’s basketball. Team Canada has been led by an impressive match efficiency to date by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who has averaged 25 factors per sport during the last six video games.

The Canadians will face off subsequent in opposition to Serbia on Friday, preventing for an opportunity to play of their first World Cup ultimate. 

The sport will happen shiny and early for these on Eastern time, 4:45am, however based mostly on the staff’s efficiency within the match to date, it’s more likely to be value an early get up name.

Rowing 

The 2023 World Rowing Championships are on proper now on Sava Lake in Belgrade, Serbia. Team Canada is represented by 39 rowers protecting 10 boat lessons. The World Championships are the primary alternative to qualify boats for Paris 2024.

In the lads’s and ladies’s eight, solely the highest 5 nations will qualify for Paris, whereas in some occasions, like the lads’s and ladies’s coxless pair, the highest eleven boats will qualify.

Jill Moffatt and Jenny Casson had been the primary members of Team Canada to qualify a ship for the Olympics on the regatta. The pair gained their semifinal race within the light-weight girls’s double to safe their spot within the ultimate and a quota spot for Rowing Canada on the Olympics. They will race within the A ultimate on Saturday and attempt to add some {hardware} to what’s already a profitable regatta for them.

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The Canadian males’s and ladies’s eights will likely be on the beginning line for repechages on Friday, hoping to safe spots in Sunday’s ultimate. 

You can try the full roster of athletes here and the full schedule here.

Athletics

While the World Championships are over, a few of Canada’s prime observe and area athletes aren’t fairly completed for the season and can compete on the Allianz Memorial Van Damme Diamond League meet in Brussels, Belgium.

Fresh off of her silver medal efficiency (and staff captain duties!) on the World Championships, Sarah Mitton captured one other silver in Brussels.

On Friday, two of Canada’s prime sprinters, Andre De Grasse and Aaron Brown, will race the 200m. Charles Philibert-Thiboutot will face a stacked area within the males’s 2000m, a seldom-contested race distance.

Weightlifting

The IWF World Weightlifting Championships kicked off on Monday and run till September 17 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Among the Canadian athletes who will likely be in motion in weight classes included within the Olympic program are Alex Bellemarre within the males’s 89 kg class, Alexis Ashworth within the girls’s 71 kg class, Boady Santavy within the males’s 96 kg occasion on September 13, in addition to Rosalie Dumas and Maya Céleste Laylor, within the girls’s below 81 kg occasion. Bellemarre will compete on September 11, Ashworth and Santavy on September 13, and Dumas and Laylor on September 15.

These Canadian weightlifters will likely be in search of robust outcomes to assist them climb the IWF Olympic Qualification Ranking, which will likely be used to find out the allocation of Olympic qualification quota locations. The prime 10 athletes on this rating as of April 28, 2024 in every weight class will qualify for the Games.

Results from the 2022 and 2023 Senior World Championships, the 2023 and 2024 Senior Continental Championships/Games, Stages I and II of the 2023 IWF Grand Prix and the 2024 IWF World Cup can even be taken under consideration within the Olympic qualification rating.

Reigning Olympic champion Maude Charron won’t be participating on this worldwide occasion, as she is nursing a torn quadricep tendon in her knee. Crowned champion within the 64kg class in Tokyo, the 30-year-old weightlifter has switched to the 59kg class with a view to the Paris 2024 Games, since her former weight class has been withdrawn from the Olympic program. However, because the Worlds are a compulsory competitors to qualify for Paris 2024, Charron remains to be current in Riyadh the place she is due to participate within the weigh-in.

Road biking

Two UCI World Tour occasions will happen in Quebec this weekend. On Friday, the streets of Quebec City would be the scene of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, then on Sunday, cyclists will take to the streets of the town for the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal.

Canadian members of the Israël Premier Teck skilled staff Hugo Houle, Guillaume Boivin, Derek Gee and Michael Woods will likely be at first of the races. After a well-deserved relaxation after the conclusion of the 2023 Tour de France, Houle, who gained a stage in 2022, put in a high-quality efficiency final Sunday to take third place within the Maryland Cycling Classic in Baltimore. Woods is aiming for a podium end in Quebec this 12 months, on the power of his victory within the ninth stage of the Grande Boucle final July.

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Cycling Canada will area a growth staff comprised of Pier-André Côté, Quentin Cowen, Julien Matisse, Nicolas Rivard, Félix Hamel, Robin Plamondon and Benjamin Perry.

The course in Old Quebec ought to spotlight the climbing expertise of these accustomed to steep slopes, whereas in Montreal, cyclists will climb Mount Royal 18 occasions making for a race as demanding as it’s spectacular.