Swimming-Oleksiak back to lead Canada in Tokyo pool

FILE PHOTO: Swimming - Penny Oleksiak of Canada competes in the women's 100m butterfly semi-final in the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games - Optus Aquatic Centre - Gold Coast, Australia - April 5, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo

TORONTO (Reuters) - Penny Oleksiak, the first Canadian to win four medals at a Summer Olympics, will lead a Canadian swimming team eager to build on their efforts in Rio de Janeiro at next month's Tokyo Games.

Swimming Canada unveiled a 26-member squad (16 women, 10 men) on Thursday that is a mix of experience and youth that officials hope is capable of improving on the six medals won in Rio, the country's best haul in the pool since the 1984 Los Angeles Games.