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Miranda Biletski says she has been obsessed with the Olympics for as long as she can remember.

The recent action in Rio de Janeiro was no exception.

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The only difference was that this time around she was in the final stretch of preparing for her own experience in Rio, where she’s set to represent Canada in wheelchair rugby at the Paralympics.

“I’m a bit of an Olympic junkie,” the 27-year-old Queen City product says with a smile.

“We were in the middle of a training camp at the time, but we would have it up on computers up until about two minutes before our court time, with our whole team watching.

“It was a lot of fun.”

Now, Biletski’s squad is set to compete and hopefully have a lot more fun in Brazil — with the added motivation of having watched their Team Canada peers already compete earlier this summer.

A favourite memory from Brazil so far, Biletski says, is watching Humboldt product Brianne Theisen-Eaton’s come-from-behind, bronze-medal showing in the heptathlon — the first combined events women’s medal in Canadian Olympic history.