Quebecers to watch for during the Olympic Games

Canada's has sent a team of 313 athletes to Rio for the Olympics. Quebecers make up 54 of them and here are a few to watch during the next two weeks.

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Wrestling:Dorothy Yeats

Montreal West's Dorothy Yeats is a medal contender for Canada in wrestling.

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Yeats is competing in her first Olympic Games but if her last name sounds familiar that's because her father, Doug Yeats, is a five-time Olympian in Greco-Roman wrestling and competed in Montreal in 1976.

Yeats has a strong resume of success leading up to Rio. In 2014 she won the gold at the FISU World Championship, the Youth Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games.

In 2015 she competed for Canada in Toronto at the Pan Am Games and won gold there too.

Women's wresting beginsAug. 17.

Judo:Antoine Valois-Fortier

Judoka Antoine Valois-Fortier was one the great stories from the 2012 Olympics in London when he surprised the world and won bronze.

This time around the Quebec City native,who trains in Montreal,won't be sneaking up on anyone. In 2014 he became the first Canadian to win a medal at the Judo World Championshipsin 15 yearswhen he took silver.

He is coached by two-time Olympic medallist Nicolas Gill.

The judo events beginAug. 6.

Diving: The Fab Four

Canada's diving team is entirely made up of athletes from the province of Quebec.

The women, Jennifer Abel, Pamela Ware, Roseline Filion and Meaghan Benefito are some of Canada's strongest medal hopes.

The group have been appropriately dubbed "The Fab 4" after years of consistently reaching the podium at the World Cup level.

Benefito, Filion and Abel already have Olympic bronze medals from London and the expectation is that they will improve on that in Rio.

On the men's side, Montreal's Philippe Gagn, LaSalle's Vincent Riendeau and Saint-Constant's Maxim Bouchard are all making their Olympic debut.

The diving events beginAug. 7.

Basketball:Lizanne Murphy and Nirra Fields

Canada's women's basketball team is back in the Olympics and while a medal is far from guaranteed there is hope this group can put together a run that gets them on the podium.

Beaconsfield's Lizanne Murphy is one of the veteran leaders of this group but nearly missed her opportunity to compete after suffering a knee injury in December.

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She pushed through gruelling rehab to get ready in time for the Olympics and the 32-year-old's leadership will be a critical to Canada if they are to win a medal.

Guard Nirra Fields is the other Quebecer on Canada's basketball team. The Lachine native was a standout college player at UCLA and now plays for the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA.

Canada opens the Olympic basketball tournament with their first group stage game against China onSaturday Aug. 6.

Tennis:Eugenie Bouchard

Fresh off her 3rd round exit at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Westmount's Eugenie Bouchard takes to the court for Canada startingAug. 6.

Bouchard's first round match up in the women's singles is against American Sloane Stevens.

Bouchard and Stevens have played each other four times on the professional tour before. Each player taking two wins each.

The rugby sevens team

Rugby sevens makes its Olympic debut in Rio and Canada's women are a heavy favourite to win gold.

Rugby sevens is an exciting high paced game. It's a sport which is a sure bet to entertain, and if Canada can do as well as they're expected to, it will be even more exciting to watch.

Quebec City's Karin Paquin, Town of Mount Royal's Bianca Farella and Gatineau's Natasha Watcham-Roy will carry the provinces hopes on the pitch.

Quebec City's Magali Harvey, the 2014 World Rugby's Player of the Year in 15s, was controversially left off the final roster by coach John Tait but still, Quebec has three players on the final roster of 12.

The women's rugby sevens beginsAug 6.