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	Laumann, Silken
		Laumann was only 19 when she appeared at the Olympics in 1984.
		Laumann staged a remarkable recovery from her injury, and with a specially fitted brace she was able to compete at the games.
		Laumann was named Canada's female athlete of the year in 1991 and 1992, and won the Lou Marsh award in 1991 as Canada's outstanding athlete.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=A0004549 (264 words)

	CANADA'S TOP FEMALE OLYMPIANS ARE
		Silken Laumann spent three years training with the Canadian men's rowing team, after all, and it led to a world record and two Olympic medals.
		Laumann is retired from competition but showed yesterday she has lost none of the verve that took her from a wheelchair and into the heat of Olympic competition for one of the most remarkable comebacks in Canadian sports history.
		It was Laumann who battled back from a serious injury, arose from her wheelchair to fly to the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and literally walked with the aid of a cane to her single scull to compete.
	www.caaws.ca /girlsatplay/stuff/features/silken_nov03.htm (654 words)

	Silken Laumann: A golden bronze
		Laumann may have been built for rowing and competed as a rower in four Olympics and eight world championships, but Laumann's first love was track.
		Laumann was hooked as soon as she got in a rowing shell, and "Team Laumann" was born.
		Laumann overcame the medicine mix-up and the terrible season that followed to win a silver medal at the world championships at the end of the year.
	www.caaws.ca /olympics/2004/history/silken_laumann.cfm (1386 words)

	Women in Sport: Silken Laumann (Rowing) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Laumann’s rowing career started with the encouragement of her sister Daniele and, by the age of 18, she had made the national team.
		Laumann is in great demand as a motivational speaker, she is also involved in charitable activities and finds time to give back to the community.
		Silken Laumann is one of 31 women athletes or teams selected by a respected committee of leaders in B.C. sport.
	www.mcaws.gov.bc.ca /whm/women_sport/s_laumann.htm (545 words)

	Silken Laumann: Olympic Hero
		Silken Laumann takes her audiences on the journey of a lifetime, as she shares her story, from broken bones and shredded muscles to Olympic glory.
		In November 2003, Silken combined her passion for sport and youth and established The Silken Laumann Active Kid’s Movement, a national charity designed to promote the health benefits of physical activity, and to inspire and support Canadians wishing to increase physical activity levels in our children.
		Silken's Active Kids Movement aims to inspire, enable and connect everyday champions in our communities, to use their passion, their creativity and their connection to help ensure our families, our schools and our neighbourhoods are places where kids are physically active.
	www.speakers.ca /laumann_silken.aspx (560 words)

	The Collingwood Chamber of Commerce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Silken Laumann story of triumph over adversity will inspire you and, drawing on her own experience, Silken shares where she found the courage to come back and demonstrates how a shift in attitude can release the energy needed to face any challenge or obstacle.
		Silken Laumann is the Canadian Ambassador for the Right to Play (formerly Olympic Aid); a program dedicated to reintroducing play into the lives of children in refugee camps.
		Silken will speak on her newly formed Canadian Healthy Child Initiative that is focused on changing the alarming rise in obesity in our children by encouraging physical play activities.
	www.collingwoodchamber.com /news/nws-view.cfm?nwsid=393 (906 words)

	BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum :: Inductees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Her sister Daniele encouraged Silken to switch to rowing and in 1983 she was named to the national team.
		Silken suffered from a recurring back problem after the Olympics and considered retirement.Through a combination of physiotherapy and dedicated training she recovered to win gold in the single scull event at the 1987 Pan American Games.
		Among her many achievements Silken has been awarded the 1991 Lou Marsh Award as Canada’s top athlete, the Canadian Press female athlete-of-the-year award in 1991 and 1992, the Meritorious Service Cross in 1994 and was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1998.
	bcsportshalloffame.com /cgi-bin/search.cgi?person_id=292&searchall=1 (327 words)

	Silken Laumann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Silken Laumann is a Canadian champion rower, born on Nov 14, 1964 in Mississauga, Ontario.
		Starting in 1976, Silken won a number of awards, including a gold medal in quadruple sculls at the U.S. Championships, two gold medals in single sculls at the Pan American Games, a bronze medal at the 1984 Olympics in the double sculls with her sister Daniele.
		One of the odds-on favorites to capture a gold medal, her shell was involved in a collision with the boat of German double sculls team Colin van Eeten and Peter Holstein on May 15, 1992.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Silken-Laumann.htm (361 words)

	Silken Laumann Biography
		Silken Laumann was born in Mississauga on November 14, 1964.
		More important to Silken was that the public and the young athletes that saw her as a role model might believe that she knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs.
		Silken was able to keep pace with Khodotova for the first half of the race, but it was clear by the end that Khodotova was stronger.
	www.donrowingclub.com /bios/Silkbio.html (1173 words)

	The Sweeney Agency : Speaker Profiles : Silken Laumann
		While Silken’s achievements are unique to her field, her strategies for achieving personal excellence are relevant, fascinating, and highly motivational to individuals and their organizations striving to reach their full potential.
		Silken teaches groups the critical elements for realizing success by presenting her audiences with striking anecdotes and powerful analogies, while sharing the tools she developed during her seventeen years of international competition.
		Silken is on the Board of Directors for Nike and a proud member of the Canadian Olympic Association.
	www.thesweeneyagency.com /profiles.php?showsite=238 (565 words)

	speakwell : newsletter for wellness : fall 2004
		Silken sought treatment and worked on rehabilitation until the "daily daggers" receded and she was able to return to her sport, this time in the lonely discipline of single skulls.
		Many of her skills have been honed in Victoria and it is with pride that I submit the name of Silken Laumann to be granted the degree Honorary Doctorate of Laws, Honoris Causa.
		Silken started The Silken Laumann Active Kids' Movement (Sept.2004) as a not-for-profit organization designed to promote the health benefits of physical activity, and to inspire and support Canadians wishing to increase physical activity levels in our children.
	www.speakwell.com /well/2004fall/laumann.php (529 words)

	True Sport - LIVES HERE
		This trepidation she was feeling led Silken to the realization that there must be a lack of empowerment felt by today’s parents in regards to improving the active lifestyles of their children.
		Silken believes in the “power of play” and that “games and play are simple - but many of us have forgotten how to play them”.
		Silken’s Active Kids also provides communities with connections to funding organizations to seek resources to fund the programs and initiatives they wish to administer.
	www.truesportpur.ca /index.php/language/en/partner/40 (631 words)

	lululemon athletica » community » lulu near you » victoria » johnson street » ambassadors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Silken's unique story of broken bones and shredded muscles demonstrates her incredible perseverance to achieve Olympic Glory, and now she inspires thousands of Canadians every day to continually strive for their dreams.
		The Silken Laumann Active Kid's Movement is a not-for-profit organization designed to promote the health benefits of physical activity, and to inspire and support Canadians wishing to increase physical activity levels in our children.
		Silken continues to experience all of her gifts to the fullest and continues to challenge herself to be the best she can be.
	lululemon.com /stores/ambassadors.php?store=3&amb=135 (552 words)

	Silken's cold costs a Gold
		Canadian rowing star Silken Laumann is dead in the water as far as keeping all her Pan-American Games medals, but not in terms of her Olympic eligibility.
		Laumann said she declared to testing officials she was taking Benadryl after each of her races on the weekend.
		Laumann said she took Benadryl on Thursday night, two days before her singles race, and again on Saturday, the night before the quad event.
	www.canoe.ca /OlympicsCanadaLaumann/mar95_laumann.html (557 words)

	CNNSI.com - SI For Women - 100 Greatest Female Athletes - Monday November 29, 1999 03:39 PM
		A legend in the rowing community, Silken Laumann won a bronze medal with her sister Danielle in the double sculls at the 1984 Los Angeles Games and won the world championship in single sculls in 1991.
		Seventy-three days before she was scheduled to race for the first time at the Barcelona Games, Laumann suffered a seemingly career-ending injury when her right leg was sliced open in a boat collision, causing extensive bone, nerve and tissue damage.
		Laumann officially announced her retirement in March 1999 after 15 years of competitive rowing.
	robots.cnnsi.com /siforwomen/top_100/74 (314 words)

	Battle Scarred
		Laumann might have been a star middle-distance runner, but as a teenager her legs sprouted like beanstalks, and she grew so quickly that she believed she had no future in track.
		Laumann was still in a brace a month before the '92 Games, but today she is as strong as ever.
		Given the ethos of rowers in general, and Laumann in particular, the notion that she was a drug cheat seemed absurd.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /events/1996/olympics/daily/july21/laum.html (1773 words)

	Friday, March 24, 1995 -- STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS (174) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Speaker, Silken Laumann says it was a nightmare and that she has been harshly treated.
		Silken Laumann came down with a cough and cold.
		Laumann is an honest competitor, known for her integrity and commitment to her sport.
	www.parl.gc.ca /english/hansard/previous/174_95-03-24/174SM1E.html (2396 words)

	Jamies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Silken Laumann was a professional rower and now she is a motivational speaker.
		Silken Laumann started rowing competitively when she was 17.
		In 1992 Silken Laumann was practicing in Germany for the Barcelona Olympics.
	www.dsbn.edu.on.ca /edtech/grassroots/Dalewood/Hero2004/g23/w.htm (788 words)

	Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame
		Silken Laumann gained rowing glory living and training in Victoria and she is well known to all Canadians for rebounding from a serious leg injury to win the bronze medal for single sculls at the 1992 Olympics.
		Laumann’s efforts earned her the 1991 Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s Outstanding Athlete.
		Laumann was named Canada’s 1992 Female Athlete of the Year and became the first non-American to win the Wilma Rudolph International Courage Award in 1997.
	www.gvshof.ca /inductees_detail.asp?IDINDU=130 (209 words)

	Laumann says extra four years worth it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But her heart was not soaring the way it did when she won bronze in 1992, having recovered from an accident that required seven separate surgeries.
		Laumann, 32, kept trying to describe her feelings without being asked, like she was trying to get a handle on them herself.
		Laumann said her race wasn't with the girl in the ghastly green and red -- Yekatarina Khodotovich of Belarus, who won the gold -- but with herself.
	slam.canoe.ca /OlympicsCanadaLaumann/jul28_laumann.html (365 words)

	CBC News: Canadian kids: aim for 90 minutes more of physical activity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Olympic medalist Silken Laumann joined the federal public health minister and health advocates to release the first-ever national physical activity guidelines for children and youth.
		Laumann, who founded a nationwide Active Kids Movement to promote active play, recalled her fond memories of playing street hockey or capture the flag.
		Laumann, a mother of two, gave examples of schools offering a weekly open house where parents can learn healthy cooking tips or play in an outdoor hockey league with their children, to add a fourth "R", recreation, to the curriculum.
	www.cbc.ca /story/science/national/2005/03/03/active-kids050203.html (597 words)

	Canada World View - Issue 13 - Fall 2001 - Olympic Aid
		It defines play (including sport) as a physical activity that promotes fun, the empowerment of children and participation."Children's freedom to be children is important to their mental and physical development," says Silken Laumann, Olympic and world champion rower and Olympic Aid's Canadian ambassador.
		She recalls, "Once, when we were playing soccer, a young boy stopped and told me, through a translator, that it was the first time in two months he hadn't felt angry." That is the beauty of play.
		Silken Laumann plays soccer with girls at the Laffa refugee camp, Sudan.
	www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /canada-magazine/issue13/13t7-en.asp (547 words)

	Silken Laumann, Inspirational Olympic Champion and Motivational Speaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Silken Laumann is Canada’s most recognizable female athlete and one of Canada’s most sought after inspirational leaders.
		She has found the parallel between coaching for championship performance in sport and coaching for excellence in business to be a strong one.
		Silken Laumann has touched the hearts of all Canadians and is in high demand as a public speaker.
	www.mcpspeakers.com /silkenlaumann.shtm (278 words)

	Silken Laumann Encourages Manitoba Students with her Olympian Story
		One of the featured speakers at the forum was Silken Laumann, a well-known Canadian athlete who challenged her listeners to "never give up".
		Silken Laumann is a woman who is admired by many.
		A recipient of several Olympic medal's Laumann has not only proven herself to be an exceptional athlete; through her personal struggles and disappointments, she has also shown exceptional determination.
	www.snn-rdr.ca /old/may2000/may2000/laumann.html (521 words)

	Keynote Speaker The Partners in Practice Conference is honoured to have Dr
		Silken is the National Spokesperson for Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities, the British Columbia Women’s Hospital Foundation and The Right to Play.
		Silken shares, with audiences throughout Canada, the lessons she has learned from sport and how those lessons have served her as valuable tools for achieving success in life.
		Silken is a confident, dynamic and inspirational speaker with a disarming sense of humour.
	www.trentu.ca /continuinged/edconference/inside/keynote_speaker.htm (260 words)

	'Team Canada' helps needy children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wayne Gretzky and Silken Laumann are two of more than 20 Canadian sports stars who have pledged support.
		Laumann, chairperson of Team Canada, spent three days at a refugee camp in Eritrea several years ago.
		Along with other volunteers, Laumann created a soccer program at the camp and said the results were almost immediate.
	observer.thecentre.centennialcollege.ca /news/righttoplay022103.htm (395 words)

	Peninsular Rose Club - The Silken Laumann Rose
		The approach to one of our most noted Olympic medallists, the rower Silken Laumann was rather circuitous (contact had to be made through a Toronto agent even though she was a local girl).
		Silken Laumann started rowing competitively at age 17, after competing in track and field, and advanced through the world sculls ranks.
		In Atlanta, Silken gave a small scare to the Canadian fans by finishing second in a semifinal, and having to qualify through an extra "repechage" heat, but she put a strong race in the final, finishing second to the rower from Belarus.
	www.nurserysite.com /clubs/peninsular/silken.html (643 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Golden Will: The Silken Laumann Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In an awkwardly written scene, she spills to Silken, who must have heard it all her life, why she's so disgruntled; badly timed, scene's an intrusion.
		In Seoul, Silken meets fellow rower John Wallace (soap operasoap opera handsome Dylan Neal), with whom she begins a romance.
		Silken suffers a boating accident, undergoes surgery for her broken leg and severed muscles, and begins the tough fight to get into condition.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117905465?categoryid=31&cs=1 (649 words)

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