Wiens finishes seventh at Games
With a bronze-medal already around his neck from the men’s 10-metre synchronized platform event, diver Rylan Wiens wrapped up his second event of the Olympics with a seventh-place finish in the men’s 10-m individual platform on Saturday morning.
The Pike Lake product started off strong and was sitting third after three rounds, but had trouble with his fourth and fifth dives, eventually finishing in seventh place after six rounds with a total of 445.60 points.
It’s an improvement on his Tokyo Games where he finished 19th overall and didn’t make it out of the preliminary round.
Wiens qualified for the final based off his semifinal results earlier Saturday morning, finishing fifth with a score of 468.40 points.
Saskatoon’s Mary Carroll joined Wiens at the Games as his coach.
Canada, McDowell fall in final water polo match
The Canadian women’s water polo team, featuring Regina’s Blaire McDowell, concluded a busy Olympic Games with a 19-10 loss to Greece on Saturday to finish eighth overall.
The two teams were neck-and-neck after the first period, tied 2-2, but Greece got the edge in the next period to take a 7-5 lead at the halfway point. Canada added a couple goals in the third period, but still trailed the Greeks 12-7 entering the fourth.
Upcoming Saskatchewan Competition
No Saskatchewan athletes will compete on the final day of the Olympics, but multiple Saskatchewan athletes will take part in the Closing Ceremony, which is scheduled for 1 p.m. Saskatchewan time on Sunday.
Canada’s flag bearer or bearers for the Closing Ceremony have not yet been announced.
Olympic Notes: Katie Vincent set a world record and claimed her second medal of the Games, a gold in the women’s C-1 200-m…Phil Wizard earned the first-ever Olympic gold medal in the men’s breaking competition…Another silver medal was captured on the track as Marco Arop finished second in the men’s 800-m race…Paris has now become Canada’s most successful non-boycotted Olympic Summer Games…Canada’s medal count: 27 (9 Gold, 7 Silver, 11 Bronze).