Know what’s really interesting? Learning how Navy SEALs build mental toughness to handle deadly situations.
Know what else is really interesting? Learning how Olympic athletes deal with the pressure of competition when the entire world is watching.
Know what’s the most interesting of all? When you find out they do a lot of the same things.
Austria's Ana Roxana Lehaci, left, and Viktoria Schwarz collect aquatic plants before competing in the women's 500m Kayak Double at the International Canoe Sprint Challenge on Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. Canoeists at the Olympic test event complained about the polluted water at the venue, but they were most outspoken about the aquatic plants that were tangling with their oars and rudders.
Brazil's preparations for the canoeing competition at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games have been clouded by four of their leading paddlers, including two world champions, boycotting the ongoing test event at the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas due to a dispute with the national governing body.
I grew up by the river bank in France and around the world when my parents were world class kayakers. My mum raced for France and won a bronze medal at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 while I watched from the pram, and my Dad was five-time world champion for Great Britain.
Concerns over pollution in Guanabara Bay have intensified after South Korean windsurfer Wonwoo Cho was taken to hospital during a Rio 2016 sailing test event.
Michael Phelps' coach Bob Bowman has claimed he has "great concerns" surrounding water pollution at next year's Olympic Games open water swimming venue on Copacabana Bay here.
Athletes in next year’s Summer Olympics will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Autocratic regimes, with a history of human rights abuses, are taking hold of the world’s sporting carnivals. More and more democracies, pressured by their outspoken opposition movements, simply don’t want them.
Shake Adriene Levknecht's hand and it feels like it's been soaking in ice water for a few hours. The 27-year-old from Greenville, South Carolina, doesn't paddle through snowmelt-produced rapids in the Rocky Mountains too often, but she's no stranger to freezing hands.
In what was a very ‘Boys Own’ adventure, the pair, both 21, sang Disney tunes for motivation - with ‘I’ll Make A Man Out Of You’ from Mulan a favourite - as they became the fastest humans to travel in a tandem kayak from one end of the loch to the other.
Okay, it’s that time of year when Canoe and Kayak asks the public to pick who’s the best female and male paddler. But honestly, this vote is like comparing apples to oranges or in this case rodeo to extreme racers to slalom racers to ambassadors—extremely different categories that are incomparable.
While Team Canada was racking up medals all over Ontario on Day 4 of the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games, history was made at the Welland International Flatwater Centre. By winning gold in the C-1 200m event, Canada’s Laurence Vincent Lapointe became the first women’s canoe champion in Pan Am Games history.
Judging by the lack of tickets sold for the Pan Am Games, it seems Canadians are immune to Pan Am fever.
Winning is everything to Laurence Vincent-Lapointe, but it could mean so much more — or nothing at all. The native of Trois Rivieres, Que., was 18 and hitting her stride when women’s sprint canoeing made its inaugural appearance at the world championships in 2010. Fast-forward five years, and Vincent-Lapointe is the most dominant athlete in her sport, just as it’s about to debut in the Pan Am Games in July. However, inclusion of women’s canoe in the Olympics has yet to be allowed by the IOC, something the 23 year old has been vocal about and believes is long overdue.
The International Rafting Federation publishes its Top 10 Endangered Rivers List for 2015. Rivers included in the List are those which are considered by IRF Committee to be the most endangered or threatened by damming or diversion, mining, liquefied natural gas fracking, pollution, and other constant development threats that loom over the rivers worldwide.
This is a discipline that belongs to the 'surf life saving' sports. In some countries like Australia several elite canoe sprint athletes (e.g. Clint Robinson, Ken Wallace) started on the ski and are still practising this discipline almost every day in order to develop as a canoe sprint athlete.
Ever wondered how the modern day life jacket came to be? We spoke with Charlie Walbridge, founder of Wildwater Designs and whitewater safety guru for over 30 years, who gave us an oral history of the personal flotation device (PFD). Check out its evolution.
This past weekend the Japanese National Champs were held and at the conclusion of the event the IRF President, Joe Willie Jones, was proud to announce that Japan’s bid to hold the 2017 World Rafting Champs has been successful.
#OneTeam athletes share their stories in this powerful Public Service Announcement (PSA) exploring and promoting LGBTQ inclusion in sport.
The starting signal! All nine start gates pull down simultaneously at lightning speed. It is on. Everything depends on doing the right thing in the coming 90 seconds. The hunt for gold has started.
This weekend's World Cup race in Prague is the first leg of the 2015 World Cup tour. But it is also going to be one of a diminishing number of chances for canoe slalom fans to watch the world's best C2 athletes duelling out on the whitewater. This is because, after Rio 2016, C2 will no longer be an Olympic event. This will, in my opinion, precipitate either a rapid demise of C2 on the international circuit, or a slow death as C2 'dies on the vine'.
More than 40% of elite sportswomen in Great Britain have experienced sexism but only 7% have reported it, according to a survey conducted by BBC Sport.
The Game-Changer in Extreme Competitive Kayaking. June 11-13th, 2015.
Tim Gilbert caught up with talented canoeist Jess Fox as she focuses on her road to the Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro.
Nearly 200 people formed a cheering tunnel as a grinning man in white ran past them, holding a flaming torch in the air. Families and residents of all ages came out to Grand Parade Sunday afternoon to see the Pan Am Torch carried in by Halifax Olympian kayaker Mark de Jonge, and celebrate with live music and kid’s games.
Commitmentphobes will be reeling, single people will be seething and Iain Duncan Smith will be planning to put it on a poster, next to a picture of a sad-faced single mother. But mainly, Andy Murray’s words “marriage works!”, which he scribbled on a TV camera after winning his second clay court title, were quite sweet. The player credits his wedding last month to Kim Sears, his longterm girlfriend, for his unbeaten form. “I’ve always said if the personal stuff is happy and under control that helps your performance on the court,” said Murray after the win.
Tauranga kayaker Tim Taylor has smashed the world record for a 24-hour solo kayak journey this morning, surpassing the previous record of 194.1km at 4.30am and paddling until 7am.
Mr Taylor was picked up by his support boat at 7am off the coast of Papamoa, with an hour left on the clock and 214km under his belt, when the cold and exhaustion took over and his body locked up.
After winning the 2014 V1 world title just eight months after taking up para-canoe, Australia’s Curtis McGrath is keen to repeat the feat again this August in Milan, Italy, and also improve in the K1 discipline too.
Hungary’s most successful athlete Katalin Kovacs has given birth nine months ago. She's in training camp in Abu Dhabi collecting kilometers at the moment. She's preparing for the World Championships and at the same time she's also planning ahead for the Rio Olympics.