Pan Am Games: What you need to know for today

Day 6 of the Pan Am Games will be headlined by an all-Canadian women's singles badminton final featuring Michelle Li and Rachel Honderich. The host nation will also have a great chance at medalling in the swimming and cycling competitions. 

Here's what you need to know for Thursday:

1. All-Canadian badminton final 

Badminton doubles partners and Toronto-area natives Michelle Li and Rachel Honderich will face each other for the gold medal in women's singles at 2 p.m. ET at the Markham Pan Am Centre. Li, 23, won the gold in the singles and doubles events at the 2011 Pan Am Games, and is ranked 15th in the world and first at the Pan Ams. Honderich, 19, reached the round of 16 at the 2014 Commonwealth Games singles tournament.

Honderich and Li lost in the semifinals of the doubles tournament but took the bronze medal.

2. Cycling begins

Track cycling competition will open up at the Cisco Milton Velodrome, and medals will be awarded in the women's and men's team sprint competitions. The preliminaries for the women's team sprint will take place at 12:18 a.m. ET, while the men's portion will begin at 12:29 p.m. ET. Preliminaries will also take place in the women's team pursuit and the men's omnium beginning at 11 a.m. ET.

Two of Canada's leaders in track cycling are Laura Brown and Jasmine Glaesser. The latter, a 23-year-old, won a gold medal in the women's team pursuit at the 2011 Pan Ams, and a bronze in the same event at the 2012 London Olympics. The 28-year-old Brown, from Calgary, was a part of that 2011 team pursuit gold as well. 

3. Swimming heats up 

Canada will have a great chance to add to its already impressive swimming medal total. The host nation, which has five gold medals and 13 total medals in the pool thus far, will have competitors in the men's and women's 400m individual medley, men's and women's 100m butterfly, and the 4x200m women's freestyle relay.

Seventeen-year-old Emily Overholt of Vancouver will go for her second medal of the Pan Ams in the women's medley while fellow Canadians Katerine Savard and Noemie Thomas will contend in the women's 100m butterfly. Savard, 22, won a gold medal in the butterfly at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.