Not a great day for Canada on Monday’s actions at the Beijing Olympics. Another day without any medals along with some performances that were less than sub par in some cases, others better than expected but still short.

Many sports had medal events which Canada was not expected to do well like the lightweight weightlifting events. After a promising start in the pool, Canada fell a bit short in the qualifying heats for Tuesday’s events. On the other hand, the men’s 4×100, freestyle relay team gave a performance that shattered the Canadian record but still only ended up 6th which is an indication on far the rest of the world has advanced in the sport.

There were hopes on some performances that could have broken through like Anna Rice in women’s singles badminton who fell in the round of 16. Hopes too that Luan Jujie would find her winning form in the women’s foil but she drew the fourth best play in the world and she was out. There was some disappointments like Brent Hayden in the men’s 200m freestyle in swimming. He made a choice to conserve his energy for the later freestyle so he scratched himself from the semifinal. Whether he could have competed well enough for the medal event we will never know.

The biggest disappointment of them all though was the unexpected early departure of Daniel Nestor and his doubles team from men’s tennis. Being one of the highest ranked doubles player in the world, one would have expected him to go further into the competition. Now he going home.

Still it was not all bad. The men’s eight in rowing advanced directly to the finals. David Ford moved onto the finals in slalom kayaking.

Canada was expected to win some medals at these Olympics and as of yet, the events which Canadians were expected to vie for medals have yet to begin so there is no need to panic just yet but still it is difficult seeing countries like India getting medals while Canada is down at the bottom of the standings with countries like Cameroon and Fiji.

I wonder, though, that through my profiles if I am jinxing the team a bit. So just to appease fate a bit. I think I will hold off for a day or two on further profiles to see if Canada’s luck can change.