The Canadian Premier Women made history today, beating team China for the first time in the 200m sprint distance!!
This adds another gold medal to the coffers - which places us with two gold and one bronze overall. Today has been a fantastic day!
In addition, teams are starting to get penalties for wash riding (after the 1000m fiascos, something had to be done - too bad it wasn't called during our race!!).
So, this had been an incredible day of racing again. We managed to get our stroke rate up around 110 strokes per minute in the preliminary heat - it was fast but spinny so we decided to take it down for the final - which really benefited us in the end. It felt great, the boat felt awesome and everyone felt connected. We didn't know who won and had to wait for the replay to know for sure, but once we saw with proof that gold was ours, the boat erupted in celebration. There is really no other way to describe it.
You see, the 200m has always been a dream to win - and we finally did it!
Tomorrow is the last day of racing where we will focus on the 500m distance. I will update later tomorrow or Monday with our standings.
Go Canada!!!!
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