Penny Oleksiak and Taylor Ruck's bronze-medal performances might make you feel old

When Canada picked up its first medal of the 2016 Rio Olympics, a bronze in the women's 4x100-metre freestyle relay, the Yahoo Canada Sports team was quick to celebrate. We jumped and cheered in front of the TV, popped a bottle of champagne and did our best J.R. Smith impressions.

Ok, we did none of that. We had stories to write, medal alerts to tweet and breaking news banners to launch. As Sandrine Mainville, Chantal van Landeghem, Taylor Ruck and Penny Oleksiak accepted their bronze medals, their beaming smiles were enough to make our failrly over-the-hill staff feel young again, even if just for a moment.

But then, this.

We don't blame you if this news has you feeling a bit old. Lord knows we do. A few of us may have run to the mirror in the bathroom just to see if we could spot any fresh grey hairs.

And just imagine how Canadian swimming legend Mark Tewksbury must feel. Tewks, as he's affectionately known, won the gold medal in men's 100-metre backstroke 24 years ago at the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona. Oleksiak and Ruck wouldn't be born until eight years after Tewksbury's golden swim in Spain.

So, if your soap operas are about to begin, or if there are kids to yell at for walking on your front lawn, we'll leave you to it.

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