Penny Oleksiak doesn’t want fans’ pity.

Swimmer ‘not sad all all’ about just missing podium as she sets sights on 4x100 medley relay

Penny Oleksiak isn’t letting a finish off the podium in the women’s 100-metre freestyle get her down.

The 21-year-old swimmer set a Canadian record by swimming a personal-best 52.29 seconds in the event on Friday morning in Tokyo — 0.41 seconds faster than her gold-medal time in Rio five years ago. The field was faster too, though. Oleksiak finished fourth behind Australia’s Emma McKeon, Hong Kong’s Haughey Siobhan Bernadette and Australia’s Cate Campbell.

Oleksiak took her finish in stride and encouraged her supporters to do the same.

“Y’all don’t be sending me “i’m sorry” messages !!!!!!! I came 4th in the freakin world and went a best time/Canadian record against a field of 52 mid women !!!! I am not sad at all,” she posted on Instagram after the swim.

She later tweeted, “Honestly, this is going to make the comeback more fun hehehehe.”

Oleksiak won a gold, a silver and two bronze medals at Rio in 2016, and has added a silver and a bronze at these Games while placing fourth twice. She’s now tied with cyclist/speedskater Clara Hughes and speedskater Cindy Klassen as Canada’s most decorated Olympian.

Oleksiak will have another chance to collect her record-setting seventh medal this weekend when she competes in the women’s 4x100 medley relay. On Friday, she wrote she was focused on getting “insanely strong” for that event.

And if she doesn’t collect No. 7 on the weekend? At 21 years old, she’s got time.

Labbé’s No. 1 fan: Canadian soccer fans held their breath Friday morning as the women’s team’s quarterfinal match with Brazil went to penalties. Perhaps no one’s heart was pounding more than Georgia Simmerling’s.

Simmerling, who will represent Canada in track cycling starting next week, is the partner of Canadian goalkeeper Stephanie Labbé, who saved two of Brazil’s five shots to lead Canada to the semifinals.

“If you didn’t just inspire all of (Team Canada) and (Canada), I don’t know what will,” Simmerling wrote on Instagram. “Steph, that was beast mode on another level.”

Unmasked man: Swimmer Michael Andrew, the highest-profile unvaccinated American Olympian, refused to wear his mask during an appearance in the mixed zone following the men’s 200-metre individual medley on Friday.

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee said athletes can remove their masks for interviews, citing the Tokyo 2020 playbook of COVID-19 protocols. Few, if any, athletes have done so at the Games.

Andrew said he wasn’t wearing a mask because it is hard to breathe after a swim and journalists can probably hear him better when he is maskless. He said he feels a level of safety and comfort when he’s racing because everyone at the Games has been under the same quarantine and testing protocols.

Tokyo reported 3,300 new coronavirus cases Friday, a day after setting a daily record of 3,865 cases.

Show of support: An San, a South Korean archer, became the first athlete of these Games to win three gold medals, picking up her third Friday in women’s individual archery. But instead of widespread support for the feat, she faced criticism from a predominantly male online community in South Korea that ridiculed her for her “feminist” short haircut.

The anti-feminist critiques prompted women across South Korea to post photos of themselves with short hair on social media, in a show of solidarity with San. Local media reported more than 6,000 photos were posted as part of the swell of online support.

San said she will not respond to questions about the online hostility, which gained traction after her second goldmedal win. If it is affecting her, she is not showing it.