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Despatie to carry flag at aquatic worlds
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 | 3:41 PM ET
CBC Sports
Diver Alexandre Despatie will be Canada's flag bearer for the upcoming world aquatic championships in Australia, Canadian officials announced Wednesday.
The Laval, Que., native, who will be defending a pair of gold medals, is one of 67 Canadian athletes headed to the March 17-April 1 event in Melbourne.
Alexandre Despatie won both the one-metre and three-metre springboard titles at the most recent aquatic worlds, in 2005.
(Rick Stevens/Associated Press)
The biennial championships — which include swimming, diving, water polo, synchronized swimming and open water swimming — were last held in 2005 at Montreal's Parc Jean-Drapeau, where Despatie won the men's one-metre and three-metre springboard titles.
Overall, Canada captured 10 medals at the event — five in swimming, four in diving and one in women's water polo. The team aims to reach that total again in Melbourne.
"If we're able to match that, we'll be really pleased," chef de mission Claude Lavoie said at a news conference at Parc Jean-Drapeau. "I know in swimming, [coach] Pierre Lafontaine's really optimistic and in diving, it's the same team we had here."
With files from the Canadian Press
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