CANADA SENDING 338 ATHLETES TO PARIS OLYMPICS

Canada is hoping quality is more important than quantity at the Paris Olympics.

The Canadian Olympic Committee announced Tuesday that 338 athletes will go to the Games, down from the 383-athlete contingent that won a record 24 medals three years ago in Tokyo.

Twenty-two of the 338 are listed as alternates.

It marks the fourth straight Summer Games where Team Canada athletes competing in women’s events outnumber those in men’s events. 

Of the 316 athletes scheduled to compete, 142 have previously been in the Olympics.

Thirty-eight team members have won an Olympic medal, highlighted by swimmer Penny Oleksiak and sprinter Andre De Grasse.

Table tennis player Mo Zhang will be going to her fifth consecutive Olympics, most on the team.

Dressage rider Jill Irving, 61, is the oldest Canadian competing, while skateboarder Fay De Fazio Ebert, 14, is the youngest.

There are five sets of siblings and 10 athletes who are children of previous Olympians, including basketball stars RJ Barrett (father Rowan was on Canada’s last basketball team in 2000) and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (his mother Charmaine represented Antigua and Barbuda in track and field in 1992) and teenage swim sensation Summer McIntosh (her mother Jill competed for Canada at the 1984 Games).

Ontario leads the way with 145 athletes, followed by Quebec (58) and B.C. (45).

The opening ceremony is July 26.

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