Summer Olympics - Tennis - SCAR2016 Traditional Cache

The world will turn its eyes to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from August 5 to 21, 2016 as they host the Games of the XXXI Olympiad.  More than 10,500 athletes from 206 countries – including Kosovo and South Sudan for the first time – are expected to compete for 306 sets of medals in 28 sports. 

Lawn tennis was part of the inaugural Summer Olympics in 1896 but was dropped after 1924.  After two appearances as a demonstration sport in 1968 and 1984 it returned as a full medal sport in 1988 and has been played at every edition of  the games ever since. A tennis player who wins an Olympic gold medal and all four Grand Slam events is said to have won a Golden Slam.

Canada’s lone medal in tennis was the surprise gold by the men’s doubles team of Sebastien Lareau and Daniel Nestor who beat the favoured Aussies in the final of the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

The cache is located within an easy lob of Saskatoon’s indoor tennis dome – the Lakewood Tennis Centre.