Canada is hoping high quality is extra vital than amount on the Paris Olympics.
The Canadian Olympic Committee introduced Tuesday that 338 athletes will go to the Video games, down from the 383-athlete contingent that received a report 24 medals three years in the past in Tokyo.
Twenty-two of the 338 are listed as alternates.
It marks the fourth straight Summer season Video games the place Staff Canada athletes competing in girls’s occasions outnumber these in males’s occasions.
Of the 316 athletes scheduled to compete, 142 have beforehand been within the Olympics.
Thirty-eight group members have received an Olympic medal, highlighted by swimmer Penny Oleksiak and sprinter Andre De Grasse.
Desk tennis participant Mo Zhang can be going to her fifth consecutive Olympics, most on the group.
Dressage rider Jill Irving, 61, is the oldest Canadian competing, whereas skateboarder Fay De Fazio Ebert, 14, is the youngest.
There are 5 units of siblings and 10 athletes who’re youngsters of earlier Olympians, together with basketball stars RJ Barrett (father Rowan was on Canada’s final basketball group in 2000) and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (his mom Charmaine represented Antigua and Barbuda in observe and subject in 1992) and teenage swim sensation Summer season McIntosh (her mom Jill competed for Canada on the 1984 Video games).
Ontario leads the way in which with 145 athletes, adopted by Quebec (58) and B.C. (45).
The opening ceremony is July 26.
