Medal Ceremony

Mr Bal Gosal with our cycling medalists
Lynn Bessette, Robbi Weldon, Daniel Chalifour, Ed Veal, Marie-Claude Molnar (masked) and Mr Gosal

Daniel's medal stack, he would win another Bronze in the road race the next day

 For the second time this week, we honored our medalists with an “in-house” medal ceremony. This allows all athletes who have won a medal to be recognized among their colleagues and other sports can be present to be aware of what else is happening. There are so many things going on that the cyclists may not know that the swimmers are winning some medals and the athletics athletes are at the stadium every day and may not noticed the work of our judo competitors. The most fun thing is the “gift”. Every athlete is recognized with a little speech and presentation by the coach and then they receive a gift which, at these Games, is a Lucha Libre mask. They are a hit over here. Lucha Libre is Mexican wrestling. Most would be familiar with it from the koodo cell phone commercial with the little wrestler.

We were honored by a visit form Canada’s Minister of State for Sport, Mr Bal Gosal who presented the athletes with their masks. He even got one himself!

Mr Gosal gets his Lucha Libre mask

Scary bunch