Unlike a year ago when the U.S. Olympic Rowing Trials at Nathan Benderson Park was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kara Kohler was healthy.
Well, at least she was healthy until after she had won a spot on the U.S. Olympic Rowing Team by dominating in the finals of the U.S. Olympic Trials women's single scull competition Friday at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota.
"I feel slightly ill," a smiling Kohler said 20 minutes after the race. "It's the nerves and the excitement."
A year ago, before the pandemic became a factor, Kohler was recovering from mononucleosis she had contracted a month before the Trials was scheduled. In a way, she said it was a blessing for her to have the event postponed a year. She simply was not at her best.