TOKYO — Canada's women are trying to pick up where they left off in the Olympic pool.
Six swimming medals tied the track and field team for the most in Rio's Summer Olympics five years ago.
The women carried momentum from Rio forward through subsequent international swim meet before the global COVID-19 pandemic parked them.
The erased competitions, the postponement of Tokyo's Games to 2021 and the loss of training hours early in the pandemic has them hungry to show Canada remains among the top women's swim teams in the world.
"Being in Canada with the lockdowns that we've had, we haven't really shown the world what we have yet so in a way I still think we're kind of seen as the underdogs right now," said butterfly world champion Maggie Mac Neil of London, Ont.