Today is the day Alyx Treasure has had circled on her calendar.
She's been thinking about it ever since she qualified for the Rio Olympics.
This morning, at 6 a.m., PT, the 24-year-old from Prince George will take her place alongside the rest of the world's best high jumpers when the qualifying round begins at Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
The event will be broadcast live on CBC TV and streamed on cbc.ca/olympics.
Treasure qualified for her first Olympics in July at the national team trials in Edmonton, where she jumped 1.88 metres while winning her third consecutive Canadian championship.
Her personal-best 1.93m (six-foot-3.98 inches), was set May 7 at the Ward Haylett Invitational meet at her home track in Manhattan, Kan., where she graduated with a business degree from Kansas State.
Treasure is among a group of 36 athletes entered in the high jump competition. She's part of Group B, which will compete alongside the 18 Group A athletes.
There will be two separate bars set up for the qualifying jumps.
The top 12 competitors who achieve the qualifying standard advance to the finals, set for Saturday at 12:30 p.m. If there are not 12 jumpers who achieve the standard today, the best 12 will advance.
"Alyx's 1.93m is a little low to make the top-12, but you never know," said Tom Masich, Treasure's former coach at the Prince George Track and Field Club.
"The top ones are not necessarily going to be on. You're at the mercy of that bloody bar."
Canada celebrated its first male gold medalist at the Rio Games when Derek Drouin of Corunna, Ont., won the men's high jump competition on Tuesday.
In the 2012 Olympics, Russia dominated the event with Anna Chicherova taking gold and Svetlana Shkolina winning bronze. The silver medal went to American jumper Brigetta Barret.
None of the medalists from 2012 are competing in the qualifying round in Rio.
