Canada announced its Olympic team — here are some fun facts about the athletes

The Canadian Olympic Committee today unveiled its team of 338 athletes for the Paris Summer Games. That's fewer than the 371 named for the Tokyo Games three years ago, but still one of the country's largest Olympic delegations ever.

Competition in Paris begins next Wednesday with some men's soccer and rugby sevens games, but Canada doesn't have a team in either event. Canadians see their first action the following day in archery and a women's soccer match vs. New Zealand.

The opening ceremony is on Friday July 26, featuring a first-of-its-kind boat parade of athletes on the Seine river. Canada will announce its flag-bearers (expected to be a woman and a man) sometime in the coming days.

Here are some interesting facts and figures about the Canadian Olympic team:

The clear majority of them are women. Excluding the 22 alternates on the team, 61 per cent of the athletes named today "identify as female or are competing in women's events," according to the COC. Women are also expected to win the bulk of Canada's medals. They account for 13 of the 20 (65 per cent) projected by the data company Nielsen's Gracenote.

The oldest athlete is 61-year-old equestrian rider Jill Irving. The first-time Olympian will compete in dressage after helping Canada to a team gold at the 2019 Pan American Games. Irving is two years older than men's equestrian rider Mario Deslauriers, who's back for his fourth Olympics after being Canada's eldest athlete at the 2021 Tokyo Games. Deslauriers made his Olympic debut way back in 1984.

The youngest athlete is 14-year-old skateboarder Fay De Fazio Ebert. She won gold in the women's park event at last year's Pan Am Games, when she was still 13. De Fazio Ebert is 24 years younger than fellow Canadian