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Canadian women win bronze in track cycling team pursuit

LONDON – Canada has won bronze in the women’s team pursuit at the Olympic Velodrome.

Tara Whitten of Edmonton, Gillian Carleton of Victoria and Jasmin Glaesser of Coquitlam, B.C., defeated Australia to place third.

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The Canadians lost to Britain in the first round but were fast enough to earn a berth for the bronze.

Britain, setting its second world record in as many days, faces the U.S. for gold.

In the women’s team pursuit, teams of three race over three kilometres.

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