The World Aquatics Championships start Friday, but swimming fans have to wait

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In a little over two weeks, Canadian swimming superstar Summer McIntosh will take to the pool at the world championships in Singapore, where she'll try to match a Michael Phelps record by winning five individual gold medals.

The 18-year-old triple Olympic champion will be joined by around two dozen other Canadian swimmers, including three-time backstroke world champ Kylie Masse, who won her fifth career Olympic medal last summer; 20-year-old Ilya Kharun, who captured a pair of men's butterfly bronze in Paris; and 21-year-old Josh Liendo, who took silver in the 100m butterfly. The international headliners are France's Leon Marchand, who won four Olympic golds last year, and nine-time Olympic champ Katie Ledecky, who will take on McIntosh in the 400m and 800m freestyle events as she looks to add to her 21 career world titles.

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So, that'll be fun. But we'll have to be patient as pool swimming is the last sport to get going at the World Aquatics Championships, which open tomorrow in Singapore. The program includes water polo, open-water swimming, artistic swimming, diving and high diving before McIntosh and company hit the water on the night of July 26 in Canadian time zones.

Here's a glance at where Canada stands in the other sports:

Water polo (July 11-24): Despite placing eighth at both the world championships and the Olympics last year, the Canadian women's team will not be competing after deciding to sit out last fall's Pan American championships, which served as a qualifier for the