FOG BLOG TOKYO 2020 PARALYMPIC LOG: CANADA WINS 2 SILVER TODAY, 2 SILVER AND 2 BRONZE FOR 4 MEDALS!

Canada wins two silver medals on Day 2 of 2020 Paralympic Games....Team Canada came away with two silver medals on day two of the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo in 2021. Tristen Chernove of Powell River, British Columbia won a silver medal in the men’s C1 individual pursuit track cycling competition, and Nicolas-Guy Turbide of Quebec City, Quebec won a silver medal in the men’s S13 100 metre backstroke.

Chernove, who suffers from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, which is a progressive loss of muscle tissue, reached the men’s C1 individual pursuit final, but was overlapped by gold medalist Mikhail Astashov of the Russian Paralympic Committee in the gold medal race. Zhangyu Li of China won the bronze medal. Chernove’s time in qualifying