Day 3 Olympics news: Canada’s Margaret Mac Neil wins gold in women’s 100-metre butterfly; Summer McIntosh 4th in 400-metre freestyle – Toronto Star

The latest Olympics news from Tokyo and around the world on Sunday. Web links to longer stories if available.

10:33 p.m.: Summer McIntosh was in the hunt for bronze until the last stretch before finishing fourth with a Canadian record time in the women’s 400-metre freestyle.

It was another impressive race for the 14-year-old that proved once again the future of Canadian swimming is in good hands.

9:35 p.m.: Canada’s Margaret Mac Neil wins gold in the women’s 100-metre butterfly.

The gold is the second medal of the Tokyo Games for the London, Ont., swimmer, who also helped Canada earn a silver in the women’s 4×100-metre freestyle relay.

Mac Neil found a second gear in the final 50-metres, coming from behind to win a thrilling and close race. Here’s just how close it was:

1. Margaret Macneil, Canada, 55.59.

2. Zhang Yufei, China, 55.64.

3. Emma McKeon, Australia, 55.72.

4. Torri Huske, United States, 55.73.

Read Rosie DiManno’s column from Tokyo: Swimmer Maggie Mac Neil flies to Canada’s first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics: ‘Oh. My. God.’

9:20 p.m.: Canada’s strategy of having Matthew Sharpe serve as Tyler Mislawchuk’s domestique in the first two segments of the men’s triathlon worked flawlessly at the Tokyo Olympics.

But there’s no planning for a cramp.

Mislawchuk finished 15th in one hour 46 minutes 28 seconds at the event along scenic Tokyo Bay on Monday morning, repeating his final position from the Rio Games. Sharpe was 49th in 1:57.32.

7:43 p.m.: Canadians Tyler Mislawchuk and Matthew Sharpe finished 15th and 49th, respectively, in the men’s triathlon Monday at the Tokyo Olympics.

Joanna Brown of Carp, Ont., and Amelie Kretz of Blainville, Que., will race in the women’s triathlon Tuesday morning.

7:40 p.m.: Canadian Annie Guglia is competing in women’s individual street skateboarding.

Guglia, from Montreal, formally joined the team roster on Sunday after a South African athlete ranked ahead of her suffered an injury, bringing the Canadian team’s delegation size up to 371.

Earlier in the day, Micky Papa from Vancouver came in 10th place in the men’s street skateboarding preliminaries with a time of 30.39, missing out on the eight-man final round.

Read more about Canada’s first Olympic skateboarding team here.

More to come.

7:20 p.m.: The U.S. women’s gymnastics team finished their qualifying session with a 170.562 team score on Sunday afternoon — 1.067 points behind Russia, which competed in an earlier subdivision. The U.S. hasn’t lost a women’s gymnastics world or Olympic team competition since 2010 — mostly thanks to Simone Biles’ groundbreaking dominance since 2013.

But even Spring resident Biles faltered in her Tokyo debut, though she still qualified for all five individual finals.

6 p.m.: Bruce Arthur writes: Naomi Osaka just crushed a top-30 player in her first tennis match since May; that, of course, was when Osaka said she wanted to skip media appearances at the French Open to guard her mental health, and the French Open said nuts to that, and Osaka withdrew. She then skipped Wimbledon, meaning she has still only won two of the last four Grand Slams.

Osaka withdrew from her sport, and her star didn’t dim; if anything, it grew brighter. And Sunday in Tokyo there she was in the flesh, the biggest tennis star in the world, answering questions two at a time.

5:30 p.m.: Some unlikely heroes emerged on day two of the Tokyo Olympics, including Tunisian swimmer Ahmed Hafnaoui, who won gold in the 400-metre freestyle, and Kimia Alizadeh, the first-ever medallist for the Refugee Team.

Not to mention the basketball-playing robot who sunk free throws at halftime of the U.S.- France match.

5:11 p.m.: The biggest surprise about France’s victory over the United States in the Olympic men’s basketball tournament Sunday morning might have been if anyone was too surprised by it, writes Doug Smith.

Sure, the U.S. had rattled off 25 straight Olympic wins before Sunday’s 83-76 loss to France, but even that’s a misleading stat. The truth is nobody is intimidated by any team the Americans run out.

Previously: Team Canada scores two silver medals in synchronized diving and 400 m relay. Taekwondo medal hopeful Skylar Park advanced the quarterfinals before losing to Taiwan’s Chia-Ling Lo. Plus, the USA Dream Team got off to a nightmarish start against Rudy Gobert’s France.

Brendan Dunlop chats with CBC Sports reporter Devin Heroux in Tokyo in today’s episode of Tokyo Daily.

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