Canada at the Summer Olympics became the first Canadian Summer Olympian to win a medal in four straight Olympics. After George Hodgson won two gold medals in the 1912 Stockholm games, it would be 72 years before Alex Baumann became the second Canadian swimmer to win Olympic gold, when he won both individual medley events in world record time in the 1984 Los Angeles games. Victor Davis (1984), Anne Ottenbrite (1984), Mark Tewksbury (1992) and Penny Oleksiak (2016) are the only other Canadian swimmers to win gold medals. In 2004, Canada failed to win a medal of any colour in swimming for the first time
China at the Olympics table tennis, China again won all four golds in table tennis. Chen Zhong won China's first taekwondo gold medal in "women's +67kg". Jiang Cuihua won bronze in "women's track time trial", China's first medal in cycling. No ball-games team entered the final four, the worst performance China's since Olympic history. China won 32 golds and ranked 2nd at the 2004 Summer Olympics at Athens, Greece. Liu Xiang became the first Chinese male athlete to win gold medal in an Olympic track event, "110 m hurdles", equaling the world record of 12.91 seconds. He became the China's flag bearer at the