It's a big summer for Olympic sports

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The Paris Games are still a year away, but several major summer Olympic sports events are happening over the next few months. Here's a quick look at what's coming up and some Canadian storylines to follow:

World Aquatics Championships (July 14-30)

This massive meet in Japan includes diving, water polo, artistic swimming and open-water swimming, but the main attraction is the traditional swimming events held over the final eight days.

Canadian swimmers won a national-record 11 medals in the pool at last year's world championships in Hungary, where Summer McIntosh emerged as one of the sport's most exciting young stars. At the age of just 15, she became the first Canadian swimmer ever to capture multiple gold medals at a single worlds by winning the women's 400m individual medley and 200m butterfly events, and she added silvers in the 400m freestyle and 4x200m freestyle relay.

Since then, McIntosh has only gotten faster. At the Canadian trials this past spring, she broke the women's world records in both the 400m medley and 400m freestyle and shattered five world junior records.

McIntosh, who turns 17 in mid-August, appears poised to take the Canadian swimming torch (if she hasn't already) from Penny Oleksiak. The seven-time Olympic medallist is skipping the worlds as she needs more time to recover from last summer's knee surgery and a subsequent shoulder injury.

Canada's para swimmers should also make waves at their world championships in England starting July 31. They racked up 18 medals, including six gold, at last year's worlds in Portugal. Five-time Paralympic gold