What Canadian hoops star Bridget Carleton feels about her 2nd straight Olympics

It was difficult to qualify, but Canada's women's basketball team is heading to the Paris Olympics this summer, despite dropping an important game against Japan in Hungary last weekend. 

The Canadians were still able to lock up a spot in the tournament. 

Leading the team was Chatham's Bridget Carleton who scored 19 points and pulled down eight rebounds in Canada's last game of the qualifying round.  

The Paris Olympics run in July and August. This will be Carleton's second time competing. 

Carleton talked with CBC Radio Windsor Morning host Amy Dodge about the team getting in.

Here's part of their conversation.

It must feel pretty special.

Yeah. So excited. Obviously, I love playing for Canada, and to be an Olympian two times now is pretty surreal. I'm so excited.

Can you explain how dramatic the series of events was leading up to you qualifying? 

It was emotional. Talk about the lowest of lows through sport, and then the highest of highs, all within a couple hours. 

Heading into the tournament, there were four really good teams: us, Hungary, Spain and Japan. And three teams were to qualify. 

So heading into our last game against Japan, it was a win and we're in, and that's all we need to do, but Japan's a really good team, and we lost by four. 

That was really heartbreaking for us, but luckily, we weren't out completely yet. Spain and Hungary had to play after us. And if Spain beat Hungary, we were going to be in. 

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It was obviously really disappointing that we didn't beat Japan and go out that way, but as a team, we kind of went back to our hotel. We watched the second game, and it's so hard when things are not in your control, and it