Nova Scotia Olympian sisters making waves on journey to 2028 L.A. Games

Josh Hoffman · CBC News

· Posted: May 12, 2025 11:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

A brace of Olympian sisters from Nova Scotia who competed successful sailing unneurotic astatine past year's Summer Games successful Paris are making waves connected the planetary signifier again. 

Antonia and Georgia Lewin-LaFrance are concisely backmost connected location ungraded aft winning a bronze medal past period astatine the Semaine Olympique Française successful Hyères, France. 

The sisters, who are from Chester, N.S., said they're blessed with the podium finish, but they consciousness they're inactive shaking disconnected immoderate rust aft a abbreviated interruption from being connected the water.

"Our absorption and extremity is to beryllium connected the podium astatine the Olympics. So yes, it's a bully feeling, but astatine the aforesaid clip we person a batch of enactment to do," Antonia, 27, said successful an interview. 

The duo is trying to get successful signifier to suffice for the 2028 Summer Olympics successful Los Angeles.

They said it's inactive aboriginal successful the four-year grooming rhythm betwixt Summer Games, truthful astatine this constituent they are conscionable trying to proceed to get better.

"At the extremity of the day, it doesn't mean a batch to america different than similar a pat connected the back," Georgia, 25, said. "We truly conscionable request to support pushing and support gathering our foundation."

'That acquisition is everything to us'

The sisters made their Olympic debut astatine the Paris Summer Games past year. They finished 11th successful the women's 49er FX event. 

Sailing is simply a athletics that requires a batch of acquisition to beryllium successful, Georgia said, so it was a large measurement for them to vie connected the biggest planetary stage.

"Most of the radical who person medals person been to 2 to 3 Olympic Games before, truthful that acquisition is everything to us," she said.

Both sisters said representing their state is simply a large honour for them.

Antonia said she inactive gets affectional reasoning astir the archetypal clip they launched their sailboat into the h2o with their Olympic cogwheel connected portion thousands of radical cheered.

The siblings said travelling astir the satellite has shown them however different radical comprehend Canada and it's made them admit the accidental to correspond their state adjacent more.

"Canada has this estimation crossed the satellite for being rather a phenomenal state and a state with truly beardown morals and values. So, I'm personally very, precise arrogant to beryllium representing Canada," said Antonia.

Antonia and Georgia are leaving for Thessaloniki, Greece, this week to correspond their state again astatine the 2025 European Championship, which starts the archetypal week of June.