2024 Olympics Day 8 Recap: Summer McIntosh makes history with 3rd gold medal, as Canada Soccer and Auger-Aliassime fall short of podium finishes for Team Canada

While the watching experience and timing for the 2024 Paris Olympics isn't quite as challenging for Canadian viewers as it was for Tokyo 2020 or Beijing 2022, a good chunk of action during these Games happens when plenty of Canadians are fast asleep.

Whether you were crushing some zzz's, busy at work, had family activities to partake in or just didn't have a chance to tune in, we have you covered throughout these Olympics from start to finish, with Team Canada currently sitting at 15 medals, soon to be 16 thanks to Wyatt Sanford in boxing.

Here's what you may have missed on Day 8, including another gold medal for Summer, a silver medal for Canada's women's eights rowing team, a pair of podium finishes in the 100-metre butterfly, and tough losses for Felix Auger-Aliassime and Team Canada's women's soccer team.

With four medals on Day 8, it marks the most Team Canada has won in a single day throughout these Summer Games.

Legendary status: Summer McIntosh makes it a gold-medal hat-trick in Paris

Make that three gold medals for Summer McIntosh in Paris.

After securing first place in the women's 200-metre butterfly, and another in women's 400-metre individual medley, Summer made it a hat-trick with her third gold in the women's 200-metre individual medley on Saturday afternoon, doing it with a Olympic record-time of 2.06.56.

Making it even more impressive is that she had to make a comeback, after being more than a metre behind American Kate Douglass in the final 50.

McIntosh's historic Olympic run continues as she becomes the first Canadian ever to win three gold medals at the Winter or Summer Games. Having also won silver in the women's 400-metre freestyle, Summer matched Penny Oleksiak's record from 2016 in Rio for the most medals won in a single Summer Games by a Canadian.

Canada's Josh Liendo, Ilya Kharun both medal in men's 100-metre butterfly

Team Canada continued to excel in the pool on Saturday as Josh Liendo and Ilya Kharun both medalled in the men's 100-metre butterfly, winning silver and bronze, respectively.

Toronto's Liendo swam hard, going neck-in-neck with Hungary's Milak Kristof, who won the gold medal with a time of 49.90. Liendo wound up finishing just 0.09 seconds away from gold with a time of 49.99.

Montreal native Kharun wasn't too far behind, grabbing the bronze with a time of 50.45. Kharun now has two medals in Paris after picking up silver in the men's 200-metre butterfly earlier in the games.

Canada's women's eights rowing team medals in back-to-back Summer Games

The Canadian defending-champion women's eights rowing team won a silver medal on Saturday morning, finishing the finals with a time of five minutes and 58.84 seconds. Romania, finishing ahead of Canada with a time of five minutes and 54.39 seconds, won gold.

Canada had to dig deep for its second-consecutive medal at the Summer Games — Canada won gold three years ago in Tokyo — after the team found itself in a battle with Great Britain in the final 500 metres.

"At the end of the day it was all about belief," said Avalon Wasteneys of Campbell River, B.C. "We went out on that course and we knew that we were going to give our best possible race we could do, on the day it mattered."

"I was just digging as deep as I could, trying to find every ounce of energy and ultimately trying to leave the race course with zero regrets," Wasteneys added.

Four members of the Tokyo team returned to compete in Paris, including Wasteneys, Calgary's Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski, Toronto's Sydney Payne, and Coxswain Kristen Kit of St. Catharines, Ont.

Joining them on their silver-medal quest in Paris was Victoria's Caileigh Filmer, Abby Dent of Kenora, Ont., Maya Meschkuleit of Mississauga, Ont., Kristina Walker of Wolfe Island, Ont., and Jessica Sevick of Strathmore, Alta.

Women's soccer team's improbable Olympic run comes to an end

Team Canada's unbelievable run through the women's soccer tournament came to a sudden halt on Saturday afternoon after losing to Germany in the quarterfinals. It marks the first time the women's soccer team won't secure an Olympic medal since 2008.

The Canadians and Germans fought hard, battling to a 0-0 tie through extra time and overtime before the latter secured the win in penalty kicks, 4-2. German goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger took over when the game mattered most, stopping two Canadian attempts while also converting on the winning penalty kick herself.

Canada, as you're likely aware, has been forced to face an unprecedented amount of adversity since before the women's Olympic soccer tournament even began. It all started when an uncredited Canadian staffer was caught using a drone to record New Zealand's closed-door training session ahead of the tournament-opening match between the two countries.

After illegal video footage was recovered from the staffers room in Paris, Canada Soccer and the women's team's head coach, Bev Priestman, were engulfed in a controversy that wasn't going away any time soon.

Priestman, as well as two other members of her staff, were sent home from the Olympics shortly after Canada beat New Zealand in the red and white's first game of the Olympics. Then came the penalties from FIFA, including a one-year suspension for Priestman (as well as the two assistants), a $313,000 fine levied against Canada Soccer and, most importantly, a devastating six-point deduction for Canada's women's soccer team during group play.

The Canadians needed to win all three games in group play, coupled with as much luck as they could ask for, just to have a shot at advancing into the quarterfinals. And they did just that, beating New Zealand, France and Colombia to finish second in Group A with three points and advance to the quarterfinals.

It was a Herculean effort, one that deserved to be rewarded with a win on Saturday, but the fight and determination the women's team displayed was enough to make Canadians across the country proud.

Felix Auger-Aliassime loses bronze-medal match in men's singles

Felix Auger-Aliassime's historic run at the Olympics has come to an end, and not in the way that he was likely hoping for.

The Montreal native lost his men's singles bronze-medal match on Saturday afternoon, falling to Italy's Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 1-6, 6-3.

It's been a record-setting Olympic run for Auger-Aliassime who, along with his partner Gabby Dabrowski, won Canada's second-ever Olympic medal in tennis on Friday with bronze in mixed doubles. Auger-Aliassime's fourth place finish is now the best-ever finish for a Canadian in men's or women's Olympic singles.

Despite the loss, Canadians are very proud of what Auger-Aliassime was able to accomplish in Paris.

More Team Canada news on Day 8 in Paris:

• Andre De Grasse advances to the 100m semifinals, which will go down on Sunday, Aug. 4 at 1 p.m. ET

  • Fellow Canadian sprinter Aaron Brown is disqualified from the 100m after a false start in this morning's heats

  • Duan Asemota fails to qualify for the men's 100m semifinals

• Canada's mixed medley relay team punches its ticket into the finals

• Canada's women's 3x3 basketball team advances to the semifinals after beating Australia 21-10 in a play-in game Saturday

• Gymnasts Ellie Black and Shallon Olsen finish sixth and eighth, respectively, in the artistic gymnastics women's vault final

• After vaulting into the lead with a win in the 110-metre hurdles, defending decathlon champion Damien Warner is out of medal contention following three-straight misses in pole vault, falling to 17th place

  • Warner would eventually withdraw from the decathlon after falling out of medal contention

• Canada is defeated by Uzbekistan in the mixed-team judo elimination round of 16