Event begins Sunday in Lucerne, Switzerland
The Canadian rowing team, based on Quamichan Lake in North Cowichan, has so far qualified only two crews for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. That hangs over the once-mighty program as the last-chance Olympic qualifying regatta begins today and runs through Tuesday in Lucerne, Switzerland, with Canada looking to qualify two more boats for Paris.
“Our team is passionately focused on qualifying the men’s eight for the 2024 Olympics” Ames said in a statement. Canada’s only other crew in the Olympic qualifier is the women’s quad and it must also place in the top two at Lucerne in order to get to Paris. The boat features Katie Clark of Cranbrook, Marilou Duvernay- Tardiff, sister of medical doctor and Super Bowl champion Laurent Duvernay-Tardiff, Shannon Kennedy, a Victoria physiotherapist, and two-time Olympian Carling Zeeman.
“We’ve trained relentlessly to ensure we make ourselves, and Canada, proud on the world stage,” Payne said in a statement.
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