[URBAN NOTE] "Beach residents eagerly await Penny Oleksiak’s homecoming"
The Toronto Star's Verity Stevenson reports on how the Beach will celebrate the return of Olympic medallist Penny Oleksiak to her home.
It’s hard to tell whether Penny Oleksiak’s neighbours in the Beach cheered harder during her races than they will for her return.
Both are causes for fanfare.
“There’s a buzz on,” says Johanna Carlo, a board member of the Beach Village BIA, which is organizing a homecoming parade for Beach-area athletes on Sunday.
Oleksiak’s big return could be Tuesday at 5: 30 a.m., when Air Canada flights with athletes from several Canadian Olympic teams will land at Toronto Pearson.
The swimming team is one of them. The 16-year-old four-time Olympic medalist’s performance stunned us all watching at home, set the pace for Canada’s own performance in Rio and swept Toronto’s east end, where she’s from.
It’s hard to tell whether Penny Oleksiak’s neighbours in the Beach cheered harder during her races than they will for her return.
Both are causes for fanfare.
“There’s a buzz on,” says Johanna Carlo, a board member of the Beach Village BIA, which is organizing a homecoming parade for Beach-area athletes on Sunday.
Oleksiak’s big return could be Tuesday at 5: 30 a.m., when Air Canada flights with athletes from several Canadian Olympic teams will land at Toronto Pearson.
The swimming team is one of them. The 16-year-old four-time Olympic medalist’s performance stunned us all watching at home, set the pace for Canada’s own performance in Rio and swept Toronto’s east end, where she’s from.