BC Olympian Draws on Athletic Grit in Fight for Her Life

BC Olympian Draws on Athletic Grit in Fight for Her Life
Two-time Olympian Krista Guloien Temple (C), displays her silver medal after placing second in the women’s eight crew at the London 2012 Olympic Games. The B.C. mom of two is now fighting stage four cancer. Courtesy of Dawna Guloien
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The qualities that made British Columbia’s Krista Guloien Temple an Olympic rowing champion are the same characteristics that have seen her through the most harrowing experience of her life: fighting stage four cancer.

Temple, a two-time Canadian Olympian rower and 2012 silver medalist in the women’s eight crew, discovered she was in a battle for her life after trying to open a jar of pickles this past spring.