Jamestown's Emily Kallfelz lands on U.S. Olympic rowing team for 2024 Summer Games

Her training started in the attic of her family’s Jamestown home. There, Kallfelz learned the grueling sport on the family’s rowing machine during sessions every morning with her father in their home. It eventually produced Rhode Island’s newest Olympian. The 27-year-old qualified for her first Olympics and will compete at the Paris Games in the Women’s Four. Kallfelz will join Kaitlin Knifton, Mary Mazzio-Manson and Kelsey Reelick after the quartet finished third in the event at the World Rowing Cup II behind Great Britain and the Netherlands in May. Opening...