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Once every two years, the entire competitive aquatics community comes together for the World Aquatics Championships, including Swimming, Diving, Artistic Swimming, Open Water, High Diving and Water Polo.

FINA’s 18th edition of the Worlds is getting set to start in Gwangju (KOR), beginning on Friday and running for two weeks through the 28th. The overall schedule breaks the disciplines into two groups:

Week 1: 12-20 July
● Artistic Swimming: 10 events
● Diving: 13 events
● Open Water: 7 events
● Water Polo: preliminary matches

Week 2: 21-28 July
(Preview coming next week!)
● Swimming: 42 events
● High Diving: 2 events
● Water Polo: preliminary and medal matches

There is some serious prize money available at the FINA Worlds, by far the most in any swimming or diving event:

● Artistic: $20,000-1,000 for places 1-8 (Solo and Duet); $50,000-5,000 (Teams 1-8)
● Diving: $20,000-1,000 for places 1-8
● Open Water: $20,000-1,000 for places 1-8
● Swimming: $20,000-1,000 for places 1-8
● High Diving: $20,000-500 for places 1-14
● Water Polo: $80,000-10,000 for teams 1-8

In all, the prize purse totals $5,847,800 with the largest share going to swimming at $2.73 million. Beyond the prize money in swimming, there is a $30,000 bonus available for each world record set.

All of the disciplines are on the Olympic program except High Diving, although there are more events at the Aquatics Worlds than in the Games. A closer look at the first week’s events:

ARTISTIC SWIMMING

Russia has been the dominant force in this discipline and 2019 promises to be no different. Event in Solo (Technical and Free), Duet (Technical and Free), Team (Technical, Free, Combination, Highlight) and Mixed Duet (Technical and Free) will be held. The leading contenders:

Solo:
● Svetlana Kolesnichenko (RUS) ~ 2017 World Champion in Technical and Free
● Onna Ca

Canada at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo

Sporting event delegation

Canada competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the nation's debut in 1900, Canadian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the country's support for United States-led boycott.

Before the official postponement, the Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympic Committee initially announced their intention not to send teams to both the Olympics and Paralympics. Following the announcement on the postponement, the COC and CPC issued a statement that says, in part, that Team Canada "will rise to the challenge to showcase our very best on the international stage," without explicitly saying that Canadian athletes will take part in the games.

As part of the Canada Day celebrations held on Parliament Hill, Ottawa in 2019, former three time Olympic gold medalist in rowing, Marnie McBean was named as the Chef De Mission for the team.

On July 13, 2021, the Canadian Olympic Committee officially announced the full team of 370 athletes (145 men and 225 women) competing in 30 sports, the largest team the country has sent to the games since Los Angeles 1984 and an increase of 56 from Rio 2016. 131 coaches will also accompany the team. A total of eight squads qualified in team sports, tied for the most ever with Montreal 1976. A total of 227 athletes competed at their first Olympics, and 134 of them returned from Rio 2016. On July 15, 2021, Vasek Pospisil withdrew from the tennis competitions, which reduced the team size to 370. On July 24, Annie Guglia received a reallocated spot i

The Japanese martial art and combat sport judo has been practised in Canada for over a century. The first long-term judo dojo in Canada, Tai Iku Dojo, was established by a Japanese immigrant named Shigetaka "Steve" Sasaki in Vancouver in 1924. Sasaki and his students opened several branch schools in British Columbia and even trained RCMP officers until 1942, when Japanese Canadians were expelled from the Pacific coast and either interned or forced to move elsewhere in Canada due to fears that they were a threat to the country after Japan entered the Second World War. When the war was over, the government gave interned Japanese Canadians two options: resettle in Canada outside of the 'Japanese exclusion zone' (within 100 miles of the Pacific coast) or emigrate to Japan.

The majority moved to other provinces, and Japanese Canadian resettlement is the main way that judo was introduced to the Prairies, Ontario, and Quebec. The pattern is different in Atlantic Canada and Northern Canada, where judo was typically introduced 5–10 years later and migrants from Europe played a more significant role. The Canadian Kodokan Black Belt Association, now known as Judo Canada, was established in Toronto in 1956 and recognized by the International Judo Federation as Canada's official governing body in 1958, and by 1960 there were more than 4,000 judoka in Canada, most of whom were not Japanese Canadian. Interest in judo also grew among the general public after Doug Rogers unexpectedly won silver at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's practice of judo became a prominent part of his public persona in the late 1960s. Today there are about 400 judo clubs and approximately 25,000 judoka in Canada, and it is most popular in Quebec where there are around 120 clubs and 10,000 judoka.

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