#Olympic swimmer Maggie Mac Neil will arrive in Tokyo with a bang. Three, in fact.

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“#Olympic swimmer Maggie Mac Neil will arrive in Tokyo with a bang. Three, in fact.” If a swimmer excels at the underwater kicks after a wall turn, ‘that can really become a weapon,’ says Mac Neil’s former coach (François-Xavier Marit/AFP/Getty Images) Inside the state-of-the-art Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, the starting platforms at each end…

#’Only athletes pay the price’: The COC president on the folly of boycotting the Beijing Olympics

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“#’Only athletes pay the price’: The COC president on the folly of boycotting the Beijing Olympics” A global pandemic threw a worst-case scenario at Olympic hopefuls only months before the Tokyo Summer Games last year. No one knew how to safely be an athlete. For a time, Canada’s best competitors simply stopped training. Now, as…

#Canada’s best athletes have found creative ways to train in quarantine

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“#Canada’s best athletes have found creative ways to train in quarantine” And now they’re limbering up for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. They explain to Aaron Hutchins how they’ve stayed in top form over the past year. As told to Aaron Hutchins On your mark . . . Canada’s best athletes have found creative ways to train in quarantine…