Canada qualified another three boats for the 2012 Olympics Sunday in Bled, Slovenia.
The lightweight women's doubles boat took the silver medal at the World Rowing Championships to secure a spot in the London Games.
Lindsay Jennerich and 19-year-old Patricia Obee, both from Victoria, B.C., sprinted to the line in seven minutes, 3.46 seconds to cross ahead of the bronze medalists from Great Britain. Greece took the gold in 6:59.80.
Obee was a late fill-in for 2010 world champion Tracy Cameron, who normally races with Jennerich but was scratched due to an injury last month.
"I'm about 99% as happy as last year," Jennerich said. "You can never be happier than with a win, but given our circumstances and what we've had to overcome with the last minute injury, and the job of qualifying and the pressure going into it as defending world champion, it's great. I'm really proud of how we just mentally stuck to the job and it paid off today."
The men's four and lightweight men's double also qualified for the Olympics despite racing in B finals. A total of seven Canadian boats will race in London.
The Canadian adaptive mixed coxed four also rowed to a silver medal and qualified for the 2012 Paralympics.
CANADA INTO QUARTERS
Canada begins its quarterfinal round in the FIBA Americas Championship Monday against host Argentina.
It's the first of four games that Canada hopes will end in a top-four finish -- and a berth in the sudden-death semifinals -- that could be parlayed into a berth in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
After an almost unwinnable opener against Argentina, Canada (2-2 in the opening round) will face Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Panama over the next three days. Canada will likely need to win three times to sew up a top-four spot.
BRONZE TIMES TWO
Canadian cyclists Lauren Rosser of Squamish, B.C., and Claire Buchar of Whistler, B.C., rode to bronze medals at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships Sunday in Champery, Switzerland.
Rosser, the 2010 world champ, finished third in the women's junior downhill event while Buchar took bronze in the women's downhill.
"It was such a gamble out there, and I tried to stay on my bike," said Buchar, who was competing in the world championships for the 10th time. "I always ride very calculated, and sometimes that's my downfall. This time it really paid off, in these conditions. It was gnarly, it was scary the whole way, but I didn't give up with the very end."
Luke Stevens of Calgary was seventh in the men's junior event.
SEMIS NOT SWEET
The Canadian men's 4x100-metre relay team failed to reach the finals at the IAAF world championships Sunday in Daegu, South Korea.
Sam Effah of Calgary, Gavin Smellie of Etobicoke, Ont., Jared Connaughton of New Haven, P.E.I., and Justin Warner of Markham, Ont., finished sixth in the semifinals. The quartet clocked in at 39.38 seconds.
Jamaica, with Usain Bolt anchoring, won the gold medal in a world-record time of 37.04 seconds. It was the only record to fall during the nine-day championship meet.
POWER TAKES BALTIMORE
Pole-sitter Will Power won the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix Sunday, his second straight IndyCar victory and sixth of the season.
The Austrailian Team Penske driver cruised to the win to cap a perfect weekend, crossing the line 10.2096 seconds ahead of Oriol Servia of Newman/Haas Racing. Tony Kanaan, driving teammate E.J. Viso's oval car after a morning practice-run incident that saw him lose his brakes and fly over Helio Castroneves's car, finished third.
"That was the toughest race I've done all year," Power said. "I'm just exhausted, but that was a championship run."
IndyCar points leader Dario Franchitti was fourth.
Canada's Alex Tagliani of Lachenaie, Que., was seventh, one spot behind Danica Patrick, who is moving to NASCARfull-time next year, and James Hinchcliffe of Toronto 24th.
Power now trails Franchitti for the series championship by just five points with just three races left on the schedule. Scott Dixon, who finished fifth, is third in the points standings.
COLLEGE BALLER DIES
Shannon Washington, a shooting guard on Florida A&M's basketball team, died Sunday after being stabbed.
Washington died at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital after being found in an apartment by police suffering from a knife wound to her neck.
"For Shannon to be killed in the prime of her life is tragic and senseless," Florida A&M president James H. Ammons said in a statement. "She had so much promise as a student athlete. This is a great loss for the university and our athletic program."
Starquineshia Palmer, 20, a friend who was visiting Washington, was charged with first-degree murder, police said.
BEACH SILVER
Victoria Altomare and Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto took the silver medal at the under-21 world beach volleyball championship in Halifax.
Altomare and Humana-Paredes, the top seeds, lost 21-16, 14-21, 15-11 to eighth seeds Nina Betschart and Joana Heidrich of Switzerland in the final.
In the men's bronze-medal match, No. 1 seeds Garrett May and Danny Demyanenko of Toronto fell to Vitor Felipe and Marcus Carvalhaes of Brazil 23-21, 14-21, 15-13.
