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Canada records highest medal tally at non-boycotted Summer Olympics
made two kinds of history.Theirs was the 23rd medal for Canada at the Tokyo Olympics, the country’s highest tally at a non-boycotted Summer Games. Olympics medal count: Here’s who won the most medals during the Tokyo Games It also put them on the podium for the event’s Olympic debut, as canoe had until this year been an exclusively male discipline.Vincent-Lapointe, who dominated the sport for much of the past decade and fought hard to see it included in the Games, said it was what she’d been waiting for her whole career.“These Games — I waited long, long, long for them, and I’ve given everything I have.