In a memorable anchor leg, the 21-year-old swimmer powered Canada's 4x100-metre freestyle relay team to a silver medal — the country's first of Tokyo 2020. "I wanted a silver medal for these girls and I wanted it so bad I wouldn't accept anything else." Members of the Canadian women's 4x100-metre freestyle relay team celebrate after winning silver for the country's first medal of the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday in Japan. But two weeks before coming to Tokyo, Oleksiak was beaming with confidence. Training challenges in pandemicComing into the competition, Canadian swimmers and coaches talked about the challenging conditions they've faced over the last 15 months.

Source: CBC News July 25, 2021 02:54 UTC