BC Olympian Draws on Athletic Grit in Fight for Her Life

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. March 9 was an ordinary day for the 44-year-old wife and mother of two. She worked out, she went grocery shopping and, while making lunch, she grabbed a jar of pickles. Opening that jar snapped a bone in her arm, although she didn’t know it at the time....