Olympic newsletter: Summer to the rescue and who to watch Sunday

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Summer McIntosh captured her first Olympic medal, and Canada's first of the Paris Games, while the Canadian men's basketball team won its opener on the first full day of competition in Paris. But those victories were somewhat overshadowed by a hefty punishment for the Canadian women's soccer team as the Dronegate scandal took another turn.

Let's get into the good stuff first, then the bad, before we look ahead to Sunday's action.

With Canadians reeling from this afternoon's news that the women's soccer team will be docked the equivalent of two wins in the Olympic tournament, McIntosh delivered a much-needed feel-good moment. The 17-year-old swimming sensation took silver in the star-studded women's 400-metre freestyle event for her first of what should be many Olympic medals.

World-record holder Ariarne Titmus of Australia defeated McIntosh by a relatively comfortable 0.88 seconds to repeat as Olympic champion in the eight-lap race, while American Katie Ledecky finished a distant third for the bronze — her 11th Olympic medal.

The heavily hyped "big three" battle turned into a two-way showdown as Ledecky struggled to keep up with Titmus and McIntosh. Those two were pretty much even at the halfway point before the Australian began pulling away.

McIntosh finished fourth in this event as a 14-year-old at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. She's since won four world titles, and is now a threat to reach the podium in all four of her solo events in Paris. "We're literally just getting started," Mcintosh said after collecting her silver. "There's eight more days of racing to come and I cannot