Silver for Guerette; Crocker, Beisel just miss

Posted by Ted McEnroe August 16, 2008 at 9:40 am

Connecticut has picked up another medal in these Olympic games. Rower Michelle Guerette will come home with a silver in the women’s single sculls, just missing gold with a final charge in the final 1000 meters of her event.

Guerette was in fifth place at the halfway point of the event, 4.5 seconds off the lead, before picking up her pace. She cut the gap in half and moved into third by 1500 meters, then charged home with the fastest time in the 500, falling just short in her effort to catch Rumyana Neykova of Bulgaria.

Meanwhile at the Cube, a primetime U.S. audience saw Ian Crocker fall .01 short of the medal stand in the 100 meter butterfly, and Elizabeth Beisel (Saunderstown, RI) finish a solid fifth in her first Olympic final in the 200 meter backstroke. Beisel, at 15, is just getting her career started. But for Crocker, it is likely the end (except for the prelims in the medley relay) of his Olympic career.

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