In the latest Mountain Mind Collective Quick Flick, French kayaker Nouria Newman walks us through her successful first (of two) runs through Site Zed, the largest signature rapid on the Grand Canyon of the Stikine. Newman’s feat marks the first time that a woman has completed the entire 45-mile canyon gauntlet without portage.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach sat down with Lewis Johnson in Nanjing to discuss the Youth Olympics, their potential impact on the Olympics and Rio de Janeiro’s preparation for the Games in 2016.
Should you push on with your normal exercise load in the hope it might help your immune system shake the bug off? Or will that stress your body and make the illness worse? It's an issue even elite athletes face, says Professor David Pyne, sports scientist with the Australian Institute of Sport and the University of Canberra.
A week before the event the big guns start to roll into town. I was working in my office, and looked up to see Hank McGregor standing in the doorway! Stumbling like a star struck teenager, “duh, you’re Hank McGregor” One day at Deep Cove Kayak it was like the Who’s Who of surfski racing. ‘Oh there’s Oscar Chalupsky” “Is that Sean Rice” “There’s Clint Robinson” “And Hank McGregor is sitting on the sea wall”
OC President, Thomas Bach, visited the canoe-kayak sprint finals and spent time with Olympic gold medalists Tony Estanguet (FRA) and Lisa Carrington (NZL) talking about the innovative event and the future of canoeing.
Clean negotiation of the last four gates of the Eiskanal became the deciding factor for the exciting Augsburg World Cup final. Here is a short review of the overall World Cup series followed by the Augsburg race analysis.
Auckland canoeist Teneale Hatton is having a dream run on the international stage. The 24-year-old claimed her first US Surfski Championship title last weekend in San Francisco.
Canoe star Laurence Vincent Lapointe is in Regina competing at the Canadian Championships. She has eight world titles under her belt, but no olympic titles. That's because it's not an olympic sport. Vincent Lapointe shares her thoughts on that.
The best river towns in the U.S. have a natural exuberance, a playful energy not unlike the bubbling water that flows through them. Maybe it’s the towns’ proximity to the mountains, like beacons beckoning adventure, or the fact that river town residents live there by choice, not chance, having made quality of life, scenic beauty, and active outdoor pursuits like kayaking and whitewater rafting a priority.
This past weekend was the inaugural European Surfski Championships held in Vila Do Conde, Portugal. We stayed in a quaint B&B in the town along the river, awesome views. I have been looking forward to this race all season – Andre, Marisa and the team at Nelo really know how to put on a great event.
FIFA, mindful of the travel cost and complexity of this year’s World Cup in Brazil, wants Russia to think again about its scheme for the 2018 finals. Last month in Rio de Janeiro Russian organising ceo Alexy Sorokin was visibly shocked to hear world federation president Sepp Blatter say that trimming the venues was on the agenda.
We’d love to write a list of superlatives about Jamie Mitchell, but the versatile Aussie’s achievements speak for themselves: 10 consecutive wins in the Molokai 2 Oahu’s (M2O) prone paddleboarding division, dropping in on an angry Peahi and taking on the famed and feared Cortes Bank like few have on an SUP.
On 13 August 2004, the Olympic Games came home to Greece for the XXVIII Olympiad at an estimated cost of approximately €9bn. A decade after the sporting extravaganza, many of its once-gleaming Olympic venues now lie abandoned. For many Greeks who swelled with pride at the time, the Games are now a source of anger as the country struggles through a six-year depression, record unemployment, homelessness and poverty, with many questioning how the nation has benefited from the multi-billion-dollar event.
Nurturing your relationships with journalists is crucial if you’re hoping to tell your story to a broader audience. Journalists in the sport industry are a passionate bunch. Be good to them and they’ll be great to you. So, how can you be good to them?
A TALIBAN bomb may have taken his legs but today Curtis McGrath stands atop the world. Sapper McGrath was a member of the Royal Australian Engineers Corps when, on August 23, 2012, an improvised explosive device exploded beneath him in Afghanistan’s Khas Uruzgan province.
Strength equals self-sufficiency. Being strong – particularly as a woman – is empowering. It will feel good someday to be able to carry your own luggage down the stairs if the airport escalator is broken, and it will be important to have a solid shot at outrunning a stranger should you meet one a dark alley.
Bobbing around on a kayak offers a lot more than a relaxing way to spend a sunny afternoon. Here's what kayakers can teach the rest of us about leading happier, healthier lives.
The Molokai 2 Oahu Paddleboard World Championships may just be the hardest race in the world. Clocking in at 32 miles, the Ka’iwi Channel—or the Channel of Bones—shows paddlers what they’re really made of.
The daughter of two giants of the world of canoe slalom, Myriam Jerusalmi (FRA) and Richard Fox (GBR), Jessica Fox began her Olympic journey with a win in the K-1 class at the Singapore Youth Olympic Games in 2010 before going on to take silver at London 2012.
Take 30 seconds to dash through the 13 quick questions in our sports quiz and we'll have our best stab at suggesting which events from the Commonwealth Games could match your physical and mental abilities.
Connor Taras is a few things. He’s 25, a native of Waverley, N.S., and a kayaker. He won a world junior silver medal and made the national team at 16, challenged for the 2008 Olympics at 19, just missed the 2012 Olympics, and hopes to make Rio 2016. And he’s gay. Took him a long time to say it, though.
Dawid Mocke is a 4 times World Surfski Champion, entrepreneur and immersion speaker. Dawid’s sporting career started on the beach and in the surf as “Nipper” lifesavers, and progressed until representing South Africa in Surf Lifesaving. During this time he also started flat-water marathon, river marathon and flat-water sprint paddling; as well as open ocean surfski racing.
A Japanese artist on a mission to “demystify” female genitalia has been arrested under local obscenity laws for distributing a digitized model of her vagina for 3D printing.
Surfski racing is a dynamic sport, beloved by many of its participants for the opportunity to test their skills as an ocean paddler – which could be described as an art form when done at a high level. Wind and waves add “x-factor” elements to surfski races that separate the purely fit paddlers from those that know how to use the energy in the water to their full advantage.
Millions of fans around the world will be captivated by the most popular tournament on the planet: the 2014 FIFA World Cup Finals. In order to have their best showing and gain a competitive advantage, teams competing in the quadrennial tournament are embracing many forms of technology, both on and off the pitch.
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Kids who specialise in a single sporting activity may be harming their chances of making it at elite level, research suggests
Want your child to be good at sport, make the school team and maybe one day even compete on the world stage? Well, try to ensure that your would-be Olympian or World Cup winner is born in November or, failing that, in October.
We recently interviewed Patagonia Study Abroad alumni Hunt Jennings. Hunt is a student of kayaking in the most pure sense of the word “student.” His words reflect a methodology to his schooling as he learns and tests himself again and again. As you read you may agree that “kayaking” can be “applicable learning” for the rest of us.
Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall revealed Monday the result of bidding for the construction and renovation of facilities on the northern part of the Deodoro complex, which will host eight sports at the Games.