MacLennan won Canada’s ninth medal just hours after a pair of rowers came back to win silver. And still, every Canadian medalist is a woman.
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John Beeden’s long and winding row across the Pacific
John Beeden, the 59-year-old Canadian who rowed from San Francisco to Australia in 209 days, discusses his solo expedition
What it feels like to row on B.C.’s Elk Lake with Canada’s rowing team
Ever wonder what it’s like to chase your athletic dream as a member of Canada’s rowing team? Hop in the boat and join our top oarswomen Lindsay Jennerich and Patricia Obee as they train for the World Rowing Cup.
Silken Laumann’s shocking secret
The Olympian opens up about her dark childhood: anorexia, cutting and her troubled abusive mother
Book Review: Rowing in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
By Daniel James Brown
Campus life at Trent University
A photographic tour of the Peterborough, Ont. campus
Your future as an Olympic rower, just a click away
Canada’s team is on a recruitment drive. Do you have what it takes?
Words on the wall inspired Women’s 8
‘Find a way,’ read one message. ‘Push for great.’ On Thursday, eight Canadians followed their own advice to a silver medal
Sir Steve Redgrave and Mike Spracklen: A river runs through them
Lads from Marlow connected by Olympic dreams and past glories
An Hour of Power
It’s not exactly a monsoon, but Canada’s medal “drought” is over. In the course of an hour this afternoon, rowers Dave Calder and Scott Frandsen won silver in the men’s pair, Carol Huynh, struck gold in 48 kg women’s wrestling, and before she could even make it through the media interview zone, team mate Tonya Verbeek, won her bronze medal bout.