Canadian women’s rugby team takes silver at Paris 2024

A spirited metallic badge from nan women’s rugby sevens squad kept Canada’s badge streak live Tuesday astatine nan Paris Olympics.

Canada battled to a hard-fought 19-12 nonaccomplishment to defending champion New Zealand successful nan sevens last successful Paris to gain Canada’s sixth badge of nan Games.

The plucky Canadians seemed poised to daze nan rugby juggernauts erstwhile they took a 12-7 lead astatine nan break pinch 2 precocious first-half tries.

Chloe Daniels had a effort and conversion to necktie nan crippled 7-7, past pinch clip moving retired successful nan half Alysha Corrigan stole nan shot and recovered a spread to tally it successful for a stunning Canadian lead.

But New Zealand responded successful nan 2nd half pinch tries from Michaela Blyde and Stacey Waaka and a conversion from Tyla King to take sides its title.

The rugby metallic gave Canada six medals (two gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze) done 4 days of afloat competition.

Canada’s tally to nan rugby last included a stunning 21-12 semifinal triumph complete Australia. It was 1 of 3 wins successful squad athletics title for Canada complete its Commonwealth relative connected Tuesday.

Toronto Raptors guardant RJ Barrett had 24 points arsenic Canada improved to 2-0 successful men’s hoops pinch a 93-83 triumph complete Australia successful Lille. And successful women’s 3×3 basketball, Canada opened pinch a tidy 22-14 triumph complete nan Aussies.

While Barrett’s capacity gave Canada a cardinal triumph complete a beardown Australian team, he credited superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander for making life easier connected nan court.

“I’m retired location pinch Shai, 1 of nan champion players successful nan world,” said Barrett, from Mississauga, Ont. “Just playing pinch him, nan full squad is unfastened because he draws truthful overmuch attention. So we’re conscionable really retired location trying to thief him.”

Canada finishes preliminary-round play Friday against Spain.

The women’s 3×3 squad was led by Edmonton twins Katherine and Michelle Plouffe, who mixed for 18 of Canada’s 22 points.

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The triumph was a measurement of revenge for nan Canadians, who were eliminated by Australia astatine an Olympic qualifier and had to get to Paris astatine a last-chance tournament.

“We had a really beardown crippled plan. We watched those games to make judge we were prepared. They are specified a beardown team, and we knew we had to beryllium prepared,” said Paige Crozon of Humboldt, Sask., who added 4 points and 4 rebounds.

Canada had mixed results successful tennis, pinch Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime dominating his men’s 2nd information lucifer 6-0, 6-1 complete Germany’s Maximilian Marterer and Leylah Fermamdez losing her women’s third-round lucifer 6-4, 6-3 to different German, seasoned Angelique Kerber.

“I’m very disappointed pinch really I played,” Fernandez said, struggling to clasp backmost her emotions.

“I made a batch of forced errors, a batch of unforced errors. I didn’t play a very smart match. Angie saw nan unfastened doorway and went in.”

In gymnastics, Canada’s women’s creator squad led by four-time Olympian Ellie Black of Halifax matched its best-ever consequence pinch a fifth-place finish. The American squad led by Simone Biles easy won gold, but Canada was 4th entering nan last rotation earlier being overtaken by Britain. Italy was 2nd and Brazil third.

In swimming, Kylie Masse of LaSalle, Ont., conscionable missed adding to her profession badge haul pinch a fourth-place decorativeness successful nan 100-metre backstroke. Masse, who had won metallic and bronze successful nan arena astatine erstwhile Games, led astatine nan move but couldn’t bent connected for a spot connected nan podium.

In nan men’s 200-metre butterfly, Montreal’s Ilya Kharun had nan 3rd champion clip successful nan semifinals and could beryllium a badge threat successful Wednesday’s final.

In judo, Canada grounded to build connected nan golden badge Christa Deguchi won connected Monday, pinch some Tokyo bronze medallist Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard of Saint-Hubert, Que., and François Gauthier Drapeau of Alma, Que., losing repechage matches.