“Everything is awesome.”They were part of a gathering at the athletes village for the official welcoming ceremony of Canada, Angola, Malaysia and Fiji. “They’re very confident about everything, so that makes us confident,” Nestor told reporters over the din of his teammates attempting to samba at the welcoming ceremony. “I don’t think it’s totally set in,” volleyball star Gavin Schmitt said of finally being in Rio. “We’re staying in our bubble, and we’re really focusing on the task at hand which is to perform on Aug. 6. “It’s slowly, gradually hitting us.”“Right now, everybody is happy,” said judoka Antoine Valois-Fortier, a bronze medallist at the 2012 London Games.

Source: National Post August 03, 2016 00:08 UTC