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Canada’s women’s eight rowing team — including Krista Guloien from Port Moody, third from left — celebrates its silver medal performance Thursday at the 2012 London Olympic Games. The rowers on the team are, from left: Janine Hanson, Rachelle Viinberg, Guloien, Lauren Wilkinson, Natalie Mastracci, Ashley Brzozowicz, Darcy Marquardt, Andreanne Morin and Lesley Thompson-Willie.
Rower ‘so proud of what we accomplished here’ Gold was goal but Canadians still are thrilled By Larry Pruner THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Winning an Olympic silver medal Thursday wasn’t just the highlight of Krista Guloien’s rowing career — it marked the pinnacle of her life, so far. G u l o i e n , o f Po r t
Moody, helped d C a n a d a cl a i m i t s second silver and seventh m e d a l overall at the London 2012 Olympic c S u m m e r Games. The U.S. US won gold in the 2,000 m race in a time of six minutes, 10.59 seconds, followed by Canada in 6:12.06 and bronze-
med dalist the Ne etherlands in n 6:13.12. “A s o f right now, this is it. There’s nothing b e t t e r, ” the e 32-yearold Guloien ttold ld Th The Tri-City Newss on her cell phone while heading to CTV’s Olympic broadcast studio in London. “I’m still going to
work to try to achieve better in life in some way but right now, I’m not really sure how,” she said. Four years after a gutpunching fourth-place finish at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Canadian crew rallied down the stretch to reach the podium and re-establish Canada as one of the top women’s crews in the world. see GULOIEN’S, GULOIEN S, page A6
More to come for our Olympians Four Tri-City Olympians are still in action at the London Olympic Games: • Coquitlam’s Jasmin Glaesser is a member of the Canadian women’s track team pursuit squad that was to compete in the 2012 London Olympics today (Friday). • Coquitlam native Brittany Timko and the rest of the Canadian women’s soccer team next play today (Friday) at the 2012 London Olympics against the host Great Britain. • Coquitlam BMX cyclist Tory Nyhaug, 20, starts three days of competition with qualification on Aug. 8. • Coquitlam’s Haislan Garcia, in freestyle wrestling, takes to the mat on Aug. 12, the last day of the Games.