SPORTSCENE | LIVE STREAM - July sees the return of the annual river festival on the Noguera Pallaresa, yet this year is particularly special for Catalans and organisers alike; it's the event's 50th anniversary!
IOC | ARTICLE - After winning a third canoeing gold medal at last year’s London 2012 Olympic Games, Tony Estanguet will be hanging up his paddle to focus on his new role as an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member.
THE PASSING SHOT | PHOTOS - No words, just photos.
KAYAK JOURNAL | VIDEO - Vintage footage of Olympic slalom is hard to come by, even given how recent regular inclusion into the games has been. White Water Slalom was first introduced into the Olympics in 1972, and footage of this has been like trying to find hens teeth! However one kind soul has some and has posted it onto YouTube. Highly fascinating to compare it to the modern slalom in last years event!
Australian Canoeing has urged the sport's governing body to address the lack of women's events on its Olympic program or risk being thrown out of future games.
President and Barcelona silver medallist, Danielle Woodward, told the International Canoe Federation by letter this week it needed to act quickly to include at least one more event for female athletes on its Rio 2016 program.
COOK ISLAND NEWS | ARTICLE - Cook Islands canoe slalom paddler Ella Nicholas is set to paddle her heart out at the Under 23 World Championships starting today in Liptovsky Mikulas, Northern Slovakia.
SPORTSCENE | ARTICLE - In my capacity as a Peak Performance Coach, I have had the great pleasure to work with some of the world’s top female athletes. Some of the athletes I coach are world champions, some are college scholarship athletes and some are high school phenoms-in-the-making. My mission is always the same: Assist the athlete in self-mastery so that she can move closer to her goals.
CLYDE STREET | KEITH LYONS - I do think we have an important window of conscience available to us in canoeing. We should mind the gender gap as a moral imperative. ’Mind’ in the sense of thinking deeply and ‘mind’ in terms of being concerned about events and their consequences.
WELLAND TRIBUNE | BERND FRANKE - With a last name like Oldershaw and coming from one of the hotbeds for canoeing in Canada there’s no way Mark Oldershaw wouldn’t have had a paddle thrust into his hands at an early age.
HUFFINGTON POST | SALLY ARMSTRONG - The economist Jeffrey Sachs, spearheading the United Nations Millennium Development Project, claims that the status of women is directly related to the economy: where one is flourishing, so is the other; where one is in the ditch, so is the other.
RAPID MEDIA | ARTICLE NICK TROUTMAN - When I first started training with Eric Jackson four years ago, I was just an eager, hard-working teen with a couple air blunts under my belt. EJ was quick to teach me that a few simple steps could transform my paddling into the stuff of freestyle gold. Follow this six-step program and you’ll be well on your way to winning the next World Championships or just your local hometown throwdown.
After Rich died I continued to kayak, and despite having some of the best river experiences of my life after the event, it was never the same. I put my focus into climbing instead, and over the years I continued to cheat death more times than I probably deserved.
So why am I telling you this story my sweet Soleil? I don’t know. I really don’t have an ending to this. But since you were born, those feelings seem to be creeping up from the deep place I stuffed them.
FRANZ ANTON | VIDEO - So far we had three World Cups canoe slalom in Cardiff, Augsburg and La Seu d'Urgell. Franz Anton from Germany filmed produced a compilation besides racing the World Cups in C1 and C2 with Jan Benzien.
July will be an action packed month for the Jacobs family this year with siblings Tim and Pete Jacobs set to take on the world in their individual sports.The Jacobs brothers, both born and bred on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, have endurance accomplishments only most can dream of. Tim Jacobs, current 2 x defending Dragon Run Champion IHong Kong, 2 x winner of the worlds richest Ocean Ski race in Dubai, and coach of recent OlympicK4 member Gold medalist Murray Stewart,will be part of the Australian National Team at the World Ocean Ski Championships on 12I14th July at Vila Do Conde, Portugal.
EVERY4YEARZ | ARTICLE - Three years after fighting back from devastating injury and just weeks after reclaiming her place as one of Australia’s leading kayakers, Manly’s Jo Brigden Jones has once again suffered a serious injury. The 25-year-old Australian champion dislocated her shoulder and tore tendons while competing in the National Surf Titles.
MARTINA WEGMAN | BLOG - I spent a great week in Iceland with the 3 most bad ass chicks! We had a perfect team, with Mariann Saether being the sickest team leader, the legendary waterfall hucker Shannon Carroll, rowdy Katrina van Wijk and inexperienced me :).
IOC | LATEST NEWS - The EB discussed the topic of possible modifications to disciplines, events, quotas and competition formats at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, and reiterated that any request from International Federations (IFs) that would result in a higher number of athletes or increased number of medals, thereby adding to the cost and complexity of the Games, would not be considered.
SUP | RACE REPORT - Connor Baxter makes it a clean sweep in Bilbao with a convincing win in both the long distance and sprint racing, making it his fourth consecutive win on the 2013 Standup World Series, thereby strengthening his ratings lead.
BERG RIVER CANOE MARATHON | ARTICLE - When the batches of paddlers set off from Paarl on Wednesday 10 July for the 52nd edition of the Berg River Canoe Marathon, iconic paddler Giel van Deventer will have the opportunity to take sole charge of the record for the most finishes in the race's history.
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SURFSKI.INFO | RACE REPORT - Dawid Mocke showed once more why he’s the reigning Surfski World Series Champion, by winning the Mauritius Ocean Classic for the third time running in a time of 1:19:05. Hank McGregor finished just over a minute later (1:20:14) having outsprinted Jasper Mocke (1:20:20) for second place. Nikki Mocke took control of the women's race, winning in 1:31:59.
CBC SPORTS | ARTICLE - Canoeing has one of the poorest gender equality ratios of any Summer Olympic sport, and although female kayakers are allowed to compete in both the sprint and slalom disciplines, female canoeists are kept out of the Games altogether.
BOMB FLOW MAGAZINE | VIDEO - Being one of the most demanding and difficult runs in CA we pushed through 20+ miles of Class V-V+ with only 3 portages. Enjoy watching epic descents of The Untouchables Gorge, Jedi Mind Melt, Island Slide, The Thing, and get a feel for how amazing and wild California actually is!
SUP | VIDEO - Welcome to another installment of The Rides We Love, SUP mag’s tribute to the best (or most hilarious) rides in standup paddling, whether surfing, running rivers, catching downwind bumps or generally, going big. Here, freshwater paddling fiend Michael Tavares takes us river surfing. And does a pop shuv it. You don’t see that everyday.
ICF | VIDEO - The 26 minute highlights of the 2013 ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup 3 in Poznan, Poland, 31 May - 2 June 2013. Including 2 side stories and a GoPro short clip for the pleasure of the eyes.