Notable quotes from the 2024 Paris Olympics: Aug. 2, 2024

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PARIS – Here are some notable quotes from the 2024 Paris Olympics on Aug. 2, 2024:

“It’s an honour. It was a goal coming in, to get back on the podium and try to be consistent across the Olympics I’ve attended, and to be part of history.”

– Kyle Masse on becoming the first female Canadian swimmer to win a medal at three straight Olympic Games

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“It means a lot to me. It means everything. For the Tokyo Olympics, I wasn’t on the team because I was injured. I’ve had a lot of mental blocks (in my career). Just to be here, get through those things, and go out there, do the performance of a lifetime and get bronze is amazing.”

– Canada’s Sophiane Méthot on winning the bronze medal in women’s trampoline gymnastics

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“They are all good teams here, and we do not expect to come out (of the group stage) 7-0 … We know we are a solid team, and everyone is scared to play us.

– Canadian women’s 3×3 basketball player Katherine Plouffe on Canada’s confidence level after losing to the U.S. 18-17 in overtime

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“We know what the next round entails. We know it will be a good team on the other end of it, no matter who it is. Nobody to be taken lightly, but that’s why we came: to play the best in the world and try to beat them.”

– Canadian men’s basketball player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander after defeating Spain 88-85 to close out group play

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I just couldn’t find a way to be comfortable in any pattern, any position. Whether it was trying to dominate the forehand cross-court or change of direction, the forehand inside-out, the backhand side. Every aspect. The movement. The defence. I was dominated.”

– Canadian tennis player Felix Auger-Aliassime on losing to Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz in the men’s singles semifinal

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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 2, 2024.