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Opinion | This Olympic rowing journey deserved a better finish, but Canadian pair didn’t have their “A” game for the A final

TOKYO—A little more than 20 years ago, it would have been nearly impossible for the Sevick family to imagine Wednesday’s scene at the Olympic rowing course: Jessica Sevick, holding back tears in her Team Canada singlet, had just finished competing in her first Olympics at age 32. As difficult as it was to fathom, there was a moment two decades ago when doctors couldn’t be sure she’d make it past…