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Olympic experience will be key in London

On July 5, 2012 By FEAT Canada
Canadian rower Scott Frandsen elected to skip the opening ceremony in Beijing, and he went on to win a silver medal. (Paul Gilham/Getty Images)
By Scott Frandsen Posted: Wednesday, July 4, 2012 | 02:06 PM, courtesy cbc.ca Lately, I’ve been asked a lot about how my previous experience will affect our performance in London. With this being my third Olympics, will anything be different? Will I be better prepared to race? The truth is that each Olympics is completely different, but [...]
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Olympic silver can be good as gold

On May 5, 2012 By FEAT Canada
Scott Frandsen, right, and teammate Dave Calder rowed to a silver medal in the coxless pairs event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)
Courtesy of Scott Frandsen and CBC What defines an “Olympic Performance?” First, I should define what the term “Olympic Performance” means to me. It’s not simply competing at the Olympics. For me, it’s an athlete being able to embrace the pressure and expectations, cast aside the doubts and fear of failure, and produce a performance [...]
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The life of an Olympic rower

On April 2, 2012 By FEAT Canada
Scott Frandsen, right, and teammate Dave Calder rowed to a silver medal in the coxless pairs event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)
By Scott Frandsen and originally posted on CBC’s website: Nineteen weeks until the London Olympics. 125 days until we get another opportunity to compress four years (or, really, 17 years in my case) of training down to roughly six-and-a-half minutes.
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Scott Frandsen

On December 10, 2011 By FEAT Canada
Scott Frandsen
Scott Frandsen is a two-time Olympic rower, winning a Silver Medal in the Men’s Pair in Beijing. He ‘retired’ after Beijing but resumed training in January, 2011 in hopes of competing in the London Olympics. Scott and his pair partner, Dave Calder, qualified for London at the World Champs in August. In his time away [...]
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Inaugural FEAT Canada – RECAP

On November 28, 2011 By FEAT Canada
FEAT Canada, November 15, 2011
Coming to the Centennial Theatre not many knew what to expect! Some had heard of TED.com Talks. Some had heard of the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival.
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FEAT Canada would like to express gratitude to…

On November 19, 2011 By FEAT Canada
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To make an event happen it requires the time and efforts of so many people and groups. We need organizers, managers, speakers, performers, sponsors, prizes, you name it. So we would like to thank all of the following people and organizations for helping make the Inaugural FEAT Canada a success!
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15 November 2011

On November 15, 2011 By FEAT Canada
Mountain Biker, Brett Tippie
Speakers at the Inaugural FEAT Canada were Jen Olson, Scott Frandsen, Sebastian Salas, Nicki Rehn, Paul Gleeson, Philip McKernan, Megan Rose, Gary Robbins and Kevin Vallely. They spoke on the topics of opening climbing, olympic rowing, cycling, ultra running, ocean rowing, accomplishing FEATs, mountain biking, running and polar expeditions. This FEAT event was held in North Vancouver on Tuesday, 15 November 2011. Videos of talks [...]
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9 Speakers – 9 Days – Scott Fransden

On November 8, 2011 By FEAT Canada
Scott Frandsen is a two-time Olympic rower, winning a Silver Medal in the Men’s Pair in Beijing. He ‘retired’ after Beijing but resumed training in January, 2011 in hopes of competing in the London Olympics.
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FEAT Canada speakers announced

On October 24, 2011 By FEAT Canada
The speakers for the inaugural FEAT Canada have been announced. They are Gary Robbins, Jen Olson, Ken Vallely, Megan Rose, Nicki Rehn, Paul Gleeson, Scott Frandsen, Sebastian Salas and Philip McKernan. Their brief bios are included below…
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