Frank Garner has attended three Olympic Games as Canada’s National Coach and three as an International Canoe Official. In 2012, Frank will go to the Olympics for the seventh time. He will be the Chief Official for the Flatwater Sprint events to be held in Eton, England in August.
Being an Olympic year, spring training camp is going to be longer then ever before, for myself. I am going to Florida for 3 months this year. I am heading down on February 5th and staying until the last week in April, when we will then drive from Melbourne, FL to Gainesville, GA for our final preparation for Canadian Olympic Team Trials.
Murray Stewart wins the men’s K1 1000, Queenslander’s Ken Wallace and David Smith win the K2 1000 and the K4 Worlds crew are on track with an impressive performance to kick off proceedings on day one.
Olympic and World Champion Clint Robinson is about to stage a remarkable comeback to the sport of canoe sprint when he competes at the NSW Sprint Championships this weekend.
Lisa Carrington from New Zealand became World Champion last year in Szeged, Hungary in the K1 200 metre event. Lisa hails from Auckland on the North shore, which is only 5 minutes from where she trains most of the year, although she also spends a few months in Europe each year.
USA Today published its medal tracker for London. Its tracker projects the winners in each medal event for the 2012 London Olympics, based on an algorithm that monitors athletes’ performances leading up to the Games. The table is update once a month.
I'm on my way home to Toronto now, reflecting back on our trip. There's a lot going on upstairs, I think I'll recap Friday... it was one of the busiest, and most moving days of the week.
Max Benassi, a sprint and downriver racing specialist, and one of the best in the world is visiting Australia as part of his training program leading up to selection races for the 2012 Olympics. Here he talks with Rob van Bommel about his impressions of Australia.
Clint Robinson, a star of surf and still-water paddling, was 20 when he gave his country its first Games kayak gold in the 1000m singles final at Barcelona in 1992.
The 2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships was held in Szeged, Hungary in August 17-21. The competition served as the major Olympic Qualifier event for canoe-kayak sprint sport where 75% of all the quotes were distributed.
USA Canoe/Kayak, the national governing body (NGB) for the Olympic sports of flatwater sprint and whitewater slalom and a member of the United States Olympic Committee, announced today the relocation of its headquarters to the city of Oklahoma City.