Women's lightweight adds to Canada's medal hopes By CHRIS STEVENSON, QMI Agency

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ETON DORNEY, ENGLAND - Canada will have another boat positioned to gun for a medal at the Olympic regatta.

The women’s lightweight double sculls advanced comfortably to the semifinals Tuesday morning.

The women’s double of Lindsay Jennerich and Patricia Obee, both from Victoria, BC, finished second to the Americans’ winning time of seven minutes, 13.82 seconds with a time of 7:15.37 and advanced to the semifinal.

The news wasn’t as good in the case of the men’s double of Douglas Vandor of Montreal and Morgan Jarvis, from Winnipeg, who got out to a fast start in their repechage, but couldn’t sustain it and finished fourth. Only the top two boats in their repechage advanced to the semifinal.

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