Canada win men's eights, Australia sixth
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World champion Canada has won the men's eights gold at the Beijing Olympic rowing competition.
It was the first time in more than 30 years that the reigning world champions also won Olympic gold.
Australia's rowers were not able to reproduce last night's success, with six-time Olympian James Tomkins in the Australian boat which finished in last place.
Canada blasted out from the start and built up a lead of more than 2.50sec on Britain by the halfway mark.
The Brits started to come back but ran out of water and only held off the United States for silver by 0.23sec.
- AFP
