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
Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles Virginia Ruano Pascual successfully defended her silver medal from Athens, albeit with a different partner. Although China failed to repeat its historic championship performance from Athens, it did return to the medal stand for a bronze. Russia, whose doubles teams were composed of individuals who had won all the medals in this Olympiad's singles event, failed to advance past the quarterfinals. Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles The women's doubles tennis competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held from 10 August to 17 August at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre. The DecoTurf surface rendered