What about those Canadian rowers?

Who knew?

BEIJING -- It was a race four years in the making.

The explosive, pent-up energy from those years of waiting was unleashed in devastating fashion by the Elk Lake-based Canadian men's rowing eight yesterday as it destroyed the field to win its preliminary race at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.

Read the rest of the story abbout this hot rowing eight team in the Times Colonist.

Then tune in to see who wins on Sunday!

Kayakers in Port Townsend, Washington
Photo by Sue Frause