With the 2016 Summer Olympics scheduled for Aug. 5-21 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sherdog.com staff and contributors sat down to put together hypothetical MMA Olympic teams for the following countries: United States, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Russia, Great Britain, Mexico, Poland, Australia and Sweden. This 10-part series will map out the yellow brick road to Rio de Janeiro for the men and women who call the cage home, Zika virus be damned.
As a first-world country in the upper half of the Northern Hemisphere, Canada’s forte has always been more the Winter Games than the Summer Games. However, Canada’s quality of life and culturally diverse population of 35 million has made it an ideal immigration destination for a century, and it certainly resonates in the nation’s current Olympic ambitions.