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Volume 16, Issue 42, Week of October 23, 2017
The Amazing Race
Hall of Fame inductee relives Olympic final From left to right, Barney Williams, Jake Wetzel, Thomas Herschmiller and Cam Baerg won silver medals in the 2004 Athens Olympics. (Canadian Olympic Association)
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ameron Baerg and his recounted the magical Olymteammates know full pic final in a recent telephone well the value of a fracconversation. tion of a second at an Olympic “The race was over a rowing final. 2,000-metre distance. At 250 In what Baerg calls “the metres, we were a little behind . most amazing race we ever . . At 350 metres, we were passhad,” the Canadian four clocked ing others in the field. By 750 in at 6:07.06 to take the silver metres, we knew we were in medals at the 2004 Olympic the hunt. By 1,250 metres, we Games in Athens, Greece, loswere driving the shoulders to ing the golds to a team from the bow really well. Basically, Britain by 0.08th of a second. there were two of us in the People Baerg, originally from race and the lead was changing Saskatoon, Jake Wetzel, also hands. With 500 metres to go, from Saskatoon, Thomas Herschmiller and you were almost overwhelmed by the roar Barney Williams knew they were going to of the crowd,” said Baerg. be contenders after two terrific seasons at “With 250 metres to go, we were at the prime rowing events in the world. point of no return. We were putting evBaerg, who now lives in Victoria, erything on the line, trying to get a second
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wind. As we got near the finish line, it felt like we were facing the last 25 strokes of our lives. The race was ridiculously close, it seemed like we were going to be dead even. “At first, they announced the British had won. Then they called for a photo finish. We sat for 30 seconds, maybe a minute but it seemed like five minutes. They were judged the winners. At the finish line, they were at the highest point of their stroke, we were at the lowest part of our stroke. A metre less in distance, we win because of the position of our stroke. A metre later, we win for the same reason. “My heart sank. You put so much into the work and lose by that small a margin. In the history books, the race will be remembered as one of the closest in history and significant because the lead changed hands so many times. When we reflected years later, we
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realized that silver wasn’t that bad at all.” Baerg will be inducted into the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame on Nov. 4 at TCU Place. Also being honoured are Erin Cumpstone, the late Ted Dushinski, Joanne Jones Vause and Barb Wilson as athletes, the late Keith Allen, Chris Baraniuk, Bryan Kosteroski and Huw Morris as builders and the 2007 Saskatoon Hilltops, who were Canadian junior football champions. Baerg’s interest in rowing came as a result of his sister, Shannon, who is four years older, already being a member of the Saskatoon Rowing Club. “Most of my early years were spent on hockey rinks, but rowing gave me a good option in the summer. I went to regattas to watch Shannon. When I was in high school, it was hard work training in the basement of (Continued on page 7)
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