The Ram Olympians include Gale (Rising Senior at CSU, Team Canada, Women's 4x400m relay), Mostafa Hassan (CSU '18, Team Egypt, Men's Shot Put), Shadae Lawrence (CSU '19, Team Jamaica, Women's Discus Throw), and the Mestdagh sisters, Kim (CSU '12) and Hanne (CSU '15) of Team Belgium in women's basketball.
Gale, of Ottawa, Ontario, currently is competing with six other athletes in training leading up to the August 5th start of the four-team 4x400-meter relay. The 21-year-old is the youngest among the 57 athletes on Team Canada and is coming off her fourth 400m Mountain West championship. She owns the Ram record in both 400 events for indoor and outdoor plus three of the four relays.
Reigning from Egypt's capital city, Cairo, Hassan was a two-time NCAA champion in the shot put and still holds all four records (indoor & outdoor, all-time & conference meet) in the event. He has continued that dominance by obtaining his home country's record as well.
Lawrence, of St. Catherine, Jamaica, is another former NCAA champion thrower but in the discus with the title coming at Kansas State prior to her one season in the green and gold. In 2019, she won the discus at the MW meet to help the Ram women win their fourth title in program history and she went on to place third in nationals. This past May, Lawrence grabbed her country's record in the event.
On the hardwood, the Mestdagh sisters only shared one season – 2011-12 – together on Moby Arena's floor with Kim being in her senior season and Hanne in her first year. Kim (2008-12) is fourth all-time at CSU in career points and is second on the career 3-point field goal list behind Becky Hammon. Since her time in Fort Collins, Kim has spent eight years playing professionally including being on the 2019 WNBA Champion Washington Mystics' roster. Hanne (2011-15) was a part of current women's head coach Ryun Williams' turnaround of the program, leading the Rams to two MW Regular Season Championships in 2013-14 and 2014-15 with WNIT appearances in both. Since her departure, she has played professionally in Belgium and Germany.
All five are first-time Olympians, upping the list of former Ram student-athletes to 20 that have competed for seven different countries. Hassan, Lawrence and the Mestdagh sisters are the first Rams to don their nation's jersey at the Olympics whereas Gale is the third Canadian to do so for CSU. For women's basketball, the Mestdagh sisters join Becky Hammon who played for Russia in the 2008 and 2012 games. Gale, Hassan and Lawrence make it 11 track and field representatives at the Olympic Games. Here is a list of all Ram Olympians.
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Dates | July 21-Aug. 8
Opening Ceremony | July 23rd, 5:30 p.m. MT – 10 p.m. MT
Olympic Headquarters | https://olympics.com/en/
NBC Olympics | https://www.nbcolympics.com/
All-Sport Schedule | https://csura.ms/3hWT6uu
NBC Olympics will provide unprecedented coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday, July 23, creating a full day of Olympic programming on NBC that culminates in what is always one of the most-watched nights in television with the primetime presentation of the Ceremony. The day will begin with the network's first-ever live morning broadcast of an Opening Ceremony (LIVE STREAM LINK), followed by a special edition of TODAY with reaction and athlete interviews and then NBC's first-ever Olympic Daytime show on the opening Friday of the Games.
SCHEDULE OF RAMS
**Times converted from Tokyo to Mountain Standard Time. Since Tokyo is 15 hours ahead, some dates will appear different than the all-sport schedule.
Women's 4x400-Meter Relay (Lauren Gale | Team Canada)
Dates & Times
Aug. 5, Round One (Heat 1, 4:25 a.m. MT; Heat 2, 4:37 a.m. MT)
Aug. 7, Final (6:30 a.m. MT)
Women's Discus Throw (Shadae Lawrence | Team Jamaica)
Dates & Times
July 30, Qualification (Group A, 6:30 p.m. MT; Group B, 7:55 p.m. MT)
Aug. 2, Final (5:00 a.m. MT)
Men's Shot Put (Mostafa Hassan | Team Egypt)
Dates & Times
Aug. 3, Qualification (Group A, 4:15 a.m. MT; Group B, 5:40 a.m. MT)
Aug. 4, Final (8:05 p.m. MT)
Women's Basketball (Kim Mestdagh & Hanne Mestdagh | Team Belgium)
Dates & Times
July 27, Preliminary Round Group C #11 vs. Australia (2:25 a.m. MT)
July 29, Preliminary Round Group C #21 vs. Puerto Rico (7 p.m. MT)
Aug. 2, Preliminary Round Group C #35 vs. China (2:30 a.m. MT)
Aug. 4, Quarterfinals
Aug. 6, Semifinals
Aug. 7, Bronze Medal Game
Aug. 8, Gold Medal Game
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