Canadian women’s 8 rowing team holds off Great Britain to capture Olympic silver [Video]

Canada’s defending-champion women’s eight rowing team has won a silver medal at the Paris Olympics.

Led by coxswain Kristen Kit and three other returnees from the Tokyo 2021 championship crew, the Canadians covered 2,000 metres in five minutes 58.84 seconds for a silver medal at Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium in France.

“So much gratitude for these women. They [answered] every single call I asked them to do,” Kit told CBC Sports. “They dug way deeper than I’ve ever seen anyone dig. You can’t count out [Canadian women] until [the race] is done.”

Added Avalon Wasteneys, a member of the 2021 Olympic squad: “Right from the beginning, I think we all trusted each other, we believed in each other and we knew it was going to be a great, tough race.

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