PARIS — Before there was Summer McIntosh and Penny Oleksiak — and before the Canadian swimming women ended a long Olympic drought back in 2016 — there was Kylie Masse.

She’s still here in Paris swimming in her third Games and very much the heartbeat of the team. And she’s still competing gamely, just missing a medal for a third consecutive Olympics when she finished a heartbreaking fourth in Tuesday’s 100-metre backstroke final.