BEIJING -- Perhaps it's fitting that Canada selected a trampolinist to carry its flag at the closing ceremonies of the Beijing Games.
Especially at an Olympics in which Canada bounced back at the half-way mark, thanks, in part, to Karen Cockburn.
The 27-year-old from Toronto won silver on women's trampoline to capture her third straight medal in the Olympic Games.
Cockburn won bronze at the 2000 Sydney Games and captured her first silver four years later in Athens.
She helped Canada roar to respectability in the medal standings after failing to win a single medal during the first week of competition.
"I know, at the beginning, people were like, `You have no medals,'" Cockburn said. "But the events we were supposed to get medals in weren't coming until the end of the Olympics.
"So the team kind of knew that and it didn't really matter what anyone else was saying."
Vicki Hall is in Beijing as part of the Canwest News Service Olympic Team
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