An Olympic Finalist

In Jen Kaido's first Olympics, the 27-year-old rower from West Leyden has a chance to race for a medal.

 

Kaido and teammates Lia Pernell, Lindsay Meyer and Margot Shumway earned a place in Sunday's final with a second-place finish in a repechage race on Tuesday. The repechage, or second-chance race, was a better effort for the Americans, according Kaido.

 

"Overall I think it was a great race and if we keep learning from the previous race, executing our goals and attacking all they way down the course, I really believe it could get us on the podium," she wrote in an e-mail.

 

The women's quadruple sculls final will be Sunday at 4:30 a.m. The race will be covered on NBC's web site (www.nbcolympics.com) during its 3:30-6 a.m. time slot.  and on local NBC affiliate WKTV from 12-2 p.m.

 

Kaido wrote she will be doing a lot of resting leading into Sunday. The scullers will practice twice a day on both Thursday and Friday.

 

"I have been watching a lot of Olympic events on TV or movies on my laptop," she wrote.