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CBC
8 hours ago
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- CBC
Watch the Day 6 preliminaries of the Canadian swimming trials from Victoria
Social Sharing Click on the video above at 12:30 p.m. ET to watch live coverage of the Day 6 preliminaries of the Canadian swimming trials from Victoria. The heats feature seven-time Olympic medallist Penny Oleksiak racing in the women's 50-metre butterfly, while two-time Olympic medallist Ilya Kharun will compete in the men's 50m butterfly. The final day of competition concludes on the heels of an historic meet for Canadian superstar Summer McIntosh, who broke three world records and set two more national marks. The Toronto native authored more history on Wednesday, breaking her own world record in the women's 400-metre individual medley. It followed world marks in the 400m freestyle and 200m IM. She also set Canadian records in the 800m freestyle and 200m butterfly. WATCH | McIntosh breaks her own 400m IM world record, 3rd world record from 2025 trials: Summer McIntosh breaks own world record in 400m individual medley at Canadian swimming trials 15 hours ago Duration 7:49 Toronto's Summer McIntosh breaks her third world record at the Canadian swimming trials in Victoria, B.C., by winning the women's 400-metre individual medley with a time of 4:23.65. She is the first swimmer to break a world record in three different individual events at one long course meet since Michael Phelps at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The last woman to break three individual world records at one long course meet was Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands at the 2000 Sydney Games, according to Olympic historian Bill Mallon of the OlyMADMen. "I think 400 IM is the race I've come close to mastering for myself," McIntosh told CBC Sports' Devin Heroux. "Happy to go best time. I think there's still lots of room for improvement in and out of the turns. ... overall happy with the time, but I know I can go faster." Summer McIntosh lowers own world record in 400M IM for her 3rd of swimming trials | THE READY ROOM 12 hours ago Duration 10:30 On the penultimate day of the Canadian swimming trials, Summer McIntosh lowered her own world record in the 400M IM, the race she is Olympic champion in. With 5 Canadian records and 3 world records at trials, 'Summer-mania' is in full effect. Brittany MacLean Campbell and Devin Heroux break it all down on the Day 5 recap of The Ready Room. She now looks to turn the page and focus on world championships in Singapore from July 27-Aug. 3. "Now that I'm done [at trials], I can kind of chill out. I've got a double tomorrow for training," McIntosh laughed. "You really just use this as motivation and also validation for my training so far, and just to keep pushing and moving forward and working even harder from now until Singapore."
CBC
2 days ago
- Sport
- CBC
Watch the Day 4 preliminary round of the Canadian swim trials in Victoria
Click on the video above at 12:30 p.m. ET to watch live coverage of the Day 4 preliminaries at the Canadian swim trials in Victoria. The day features a red-hot Summer racing in the women's 200-metre butterfly, an event she captured a gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The women's 100m freestyle event features seven-time Olympic medallist Penny Oleksiak. In the men's 100m freestyle, Josh Liendo and Yuri Kisil will do battle, while on the Para front, six-time Paralympic champion Aurelie Rivard, competes in the women's 50m freestyle. McIntosh continues to etch her name in history during Canadian swimming trials at the Saanich Commonwealth Place pool. The 18-year-old shattered the world record in the women's 200-metre individual medley on Monday, touching the wall in 2 minutes, 5.7 seconds. "I'm really just trying to take it one race at a time and really kind of cruising the heats, kind of stretching it out and then coming into every final session super, super locked in and focused," the Toronto native told CBC Sports' Devin Heroux. "[I'm] really just motivated to put some really good times down, and overall I'm really happy with tonight," she added. WATCH | McIntosh wins 200m IM, setting 2nd world record at Canadian trials: McIntosh sets world record in the 200-metre individual medley at Canadian Swimming Trials 13 hours ago Duration 3:35 18-year-old Summer McIntosh from Toronto set the new world record time of 2:05.70 in the 200-metre individual medley Monday night in Victoria. She becomes the first woman ever to finish under 2:06 in the event, eclipsing the previous world mark set by Katinka Hosszú of Hungary, set in 2015. On Saturday, McIntosh broke the women's 400m freestyle world record previously held by Australian superstar Ariarne Titmus. "I knew going into trials I could do something special in every single event and I'm really excited for [the] 200 fly tomorrow and then 400 IM," McIntosh said. "There's definitely a lot more that I can do and achieve here, so just kind of celebrating tonight but then really just trying to calm myself down and get pumped up for tomorrow." This latest distinction gives McIntosh the third long course world record of her burgeoning career, as she also lays claim to the women's 400m individual medley mark — an event she'll compete in on Wednesday at national trials. McIntosh's latest historic feat impressively comes one day after setting the Canadian record in the 800m freestyle final. Her time of 8:05.07 was the third-best result in the event in women's history, but was no hindrance to her performance on Monday. "I didn't have the best sleep last night, but I was able to get a really good nap in [and] I'm a really good napper at this point," McIntosh joked. "Always learning how to recover between races is really important for me if I want to continue to be a multi-event swimmer, so that's definitely been my focus this trials."
CBC
3 days ago
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- CBC
Watch the preliminary round from Day 3 of Canadian swimming trials
Click on the video above at 12:30 p.m. ET to watch Day 3 of the preliminary round at the Canadian swimming trials from Victoria. The days action features three-time Olympic champion Summer McIntosh competing in the women's 200-metre individual medley race. Seven-time Olympic medallist Penny Oleksiak and Taylor Ruck will race in the women's 50m freestyle, while Olympic silver medallist Josh Liendo and three time world medallist Yuri Kisil take part in the men's 50m freestyle event. Monday also feature six-time Para champion Aureilie Rivard, who competes in the women's 100m freestyle race. McIntosh starts off with a bang McIntosh has already started the event in a big way. On Saturday, the 18-year-old Toronto native smashed the women's 400-metre freestyle world record, touching the wall in three minutes 54.18 seconds. McIntosh shaved the record by 1.20 seconds set by Australia's Ariarne Titmus (3:55.38) in 2023 at the world championships in Fukuoka, Japan. "Going into tonight I knew that my training had been strong the past couple months and I knew I was able to do something special, but I did not think I would be that fast," McIntosh, who shaved the record by 1.20 seconds, told CBC's Devin Heroux. WATCH | McIntosh demolishes world record : Summer McIntosh sets national record with 800m freestle victory at Canadian swimming trials 12 hours ago Duration 11:26 Toronto's Summer McIntosh wins the women's 800-metre freestyle final at the Canadian swimming trials from Victoria, B.C., with a national record time of 8:05.07. McIntosh followed that performance with a dominant effort Sunday in the women's 800m race. In front of a loud, inspiring audience at the Saanich Commonwealth Place pool, McIntosh set a Canadian record in finishing with a time of 8:05.07. WATCH | McIntosh sets national record in 800m freestyle at Canadian trials: Summer McIntosh demolishes world record in 400m freestyle at Canadian swimming trials 2 days ago Duration 7:25 Toronto's Summer McIntosh wins the women's 400-metre freestyle final at the Canadian swimming trials from Victoria, B.C., with a world record time of 3:54:18. The 18-year-old from Toronto fell just short of American Katie Ledecky's 8:04.12 world record. Shaving nearly five seconds off her previous personal best, McIntosh's time stands as the third-fastest women's 800m performance in history. "I'm always shooting to break records and push the boundaries of the sports, but overall I have to be happy with the best time. Those don't come by very often once you get to the top level of the sport," McIntosh told Heroux after the race.
Toronto Star
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Toronto Star
Iconic Toronto women, postpunk pioneers and more: what the Star's culture team is obsessed with this week
Exhibition: 'The 52: Stories of Women Who Transformed Toronto' Our fair city has been shaped by many fabulous, fascinating women. Now, there's an exhibition where you can learn all about them and their inspiring feats. It features ladies from many fields, including science, arts and culture, politics and sports, both famous and less well-known — from Olympian Penny Oleksiak and Governor General Adrienne Clarkson to groundbreaking trans R&B singer Jackie Shane and Canadian Women's Suffrage Association founder Emily Stowe. At Museum of Toronto (401 Richmond St. W.). —Briony Smith The U.K.'s Chameleons play the Opera House on Monday. Mick Peek Concert: Chameleons Call it postpunk, shoegaze, dreampop. Whatever it is, these guys were among the first purveyors. Emerging from Manchester, England, in 1981, Chameleons blended atmospheric guitars and epic songscapes with thrilling choruses, all while being overshadowed by the likes of Echo and the Bunnymen and the Cure. On Monday, a band that Oasis, Interpol and Slowdive all mention as an inspiration return to the Opera House (735 Queen St. E.), the site of their previous, phenomenal, Toronto appearance less than a year ago. With Twin Tribes and Vandal Moon. —Doug Brod Theatre: The Bealtaine Theatre Festival As someone who has relatives by marriage living in and around Dublin, I'm always interested in Irish cultural imports to Toronto. The Bealtaine Theatre Festival, kicking off its inaugural edition this weekend, bills itself as 'the very best of contemporary Irish theatre, music, dance and storytelling.' On Saturday and Sunday at 8 p.m., 'The King of All Birds' — psst, according to Irish folklore, it's the wren — occupies the Ontario Heritage Centre (10 Adelaide St. E.), using film collage, music, song and vocoder to explore flight, dreams and our fascination with the sky. Check out for information about the festival's other events in May. —Debra Yeo ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Album: 'Operation Mincemeat' I saw 'Operation Mincemeat' on Broadway over the Easter long weekend and, ever since, I've been more than slightly obsessed with its cast recording. A five-person musical comedy inspired by the Second World War deception operation of the same name, this show is smart, sharp and stupidly irreverent, but also filled with tons of heart. Imagine if 'Hamilton' and 'Spamalot' had a baby; 'Operation Mincemeat' is it. In an extremely crowded and competitive Broadway season, this musical stands out. You should be hearing much more of it in the upcoming awards season. —Joshua Chong The cast of 'Operation Mincemeat' on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre. Julieta Cervantes/TNS
