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
Rebecca Adlington Personality of the Year award. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. One of the Southeastern Class 395 high-speed trains, which are used domestically to provide a 140-mph London-to-Kent link and provided the "Javelin" shuttle service for visitors to the 2012 London Olympic Games, was named after Adlington. Several other British Olympians also received this honour. On 25 March, 17 April and 22 May 2014, Rebecca was a guest panellist on the ITV lunchtime chat show "Loose Women". She was one of the contestants in Series 3 of "The