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Jul 21, 2021 | 7:28 PM
(Reuters) â Canada may be sending one of their biggest Olympics teams to the Tokyo Games but only a small fraction will attend the opening ceremony, the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) said on Thursday.
Around 30-40 athletes from the 370-strong team will be at Fridayâs event in a largely empty Tokyo Olympic stadium, bar a few hundred officials.
âAthletes are only arriving in the village five days before they compete,â the COC said in a news release. âThis means that there are less athletes in the village and that most of them are on the verge of competing.
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FILE PHOTO: 2016 Rio Olympics - Basketball - Preliminary - Women s Preliminary Round Group B Senegal v Canada - Youth Arena - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 10/08/2016. Miranda Ayim (CAN) of Canada shoots a free throw as Mame Marie Sy (SEN) of Senegal looks on. REUTERS/Sergio Moraes/File Photo
July 22, 2021
TOKYO (Reuters) -Canada and Australia may be sending some of their biggest Olympics teams to the Tokyo Games but only a small fraction will attend Friday’s opening ceremony, officials said on Thursday.
Around 30-40 athletes from the 370-strong team will be at the event in a largely empty Tokyo Olympic stadium, bar a few hundred officials, the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) said.
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Wed Jul 14 2021
Canada will send a team of 371 athletes to the Tokyo Olympics that, despite COVID-19 challenges and concerns, will be the country’s largest Olympic contingent since the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games.
The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) said on Tuesday that 225 members of the team will be athletes that identify as women and 146 who identify as men.
“Even before Canada’s incredible athletes get to their first competitions in Tokyo, I am extraordinarily impressed by their results,” said Canada Chef de Mission Marnie McBean in a statement.
“Despite the pandemic, through their creativity and perseverance, they have become the largest Canadian Olympic Team in three decades.
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