While many paddle-sport fans have enjoyed watching Adam van Koeverden tear through the water at the Olympic Games, TEDx Algonquin offers us a chance to see Adam in a much more laid-back atmosphere, speaking on a subject with which we can all assume he is quite familiar – Hard Work.
ICF Lecturer and Coach, Zakaria Mahmoudi lead a 10-day intensive course in Rabat, Morocco before Christmas last year to enhance its coaches' skillsets, results have been promising.
Walking through the stands of the AYOF (Australian Youth Olympic Festival) Sprint Canoe Kayak, it's easy to forget you're in Penrith. You can hear the people talking, laughing and cheering but you can't make sense out of it. Everything is muddled in a mix of languages and cultures.
Germany won three golds, one silver and two bronze medals in London, making it the star turn along with Hungary. But sports chiefs back home were unimpressed by the failure to pick up a single 200m medal and so, according to reports, has overhauled its 200m coaching team.
Italy’s Olympic gold medallist Josefa Idem has announced her retirement from Canoeing. Idem is the first woman to compete in eight Olympic Games and has won 5 Olympic medals.
The International Olympic Committee has dismissed a bid to have the winning Hungarian boat in the women’s K4 500m Olympic final disqualified on the ground that one of its members was ineligible to race in it.
The Olympic disciplines of Canoe Slalom and Canoe Sprint picked up silver and bronze respectively at the biennial Olympic Golden Rings awards in Lausanne last night.
As if top-level paddling is not tough enough, Wallace will this week put his body through the five-day torture test that is the Mark Webber Challenge adventure race in Tasmania.
Last Friday saw the launch of one of the first post-London canoeing books – “100 days to history” – which documents the quest by Spanish C1 giant David Cal for a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games.
New Zealand Olympic kayaking champion Lisa Carrington is getting back into lifesaving next month. The 23-year old gold medalist from London will be competing in Adelaide, Australia – her first competitive outing since she won the 200m K1 event at the Games.