Olympic gold medalist Eleanor Logan of Boothbay Harbor has qualified to row on the U.S. eight-woman rowing team Olympic team at the games in London starting later this month.

Having won the gold in the eight at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, Logan is ready for another chance to win for the United States this year.

The rowing events for the 2012 Olympic Games are scheduled to begin Saturday, July 28, in Eton, Great Briton. Logan said her team’s goal is to make it to the final on Thursday, Aug. 2.

“I feel really strong,” she said during a telephone interview from Princeton, N.J., where she has been training six to seven days a week, three practices per day.

Logan said that when her team won the gold in 2008, she was inexperienced, but strong and happy. Four years later, she said she is a little more experienced and not as unaware of what she is doing.

Her web page on the U.S. rowing team website lists her many achievements over the years since launching headfirst into rowing championships in 2003. Since 2008, Logan has won the silver in the pair (a two-person boat) at the 2012 Samsung World Rowing Cups I and II. She won the gold in the eight (a boat with a total of eight rowers) at the World Rowing Championships in 2010 and 2011 and in 2009, she took the silver.

“The team is really strong,” she said. “I’m excited to be on the boat and have the opportunity to race.”

Logan said she is excited to learn of the support coming from the Boothbay region and around the state of Maine.

Esther Lofgren, another rower on the team, is keeping a blog of the team’s experience.