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11-01-2015

Hungarian Honved Canoe Sprint Club trains in Abu Dhabi

The late autumn-winter training camp of the the Honved Canoe Club took off in Abu Dhabi in October last year. Attila Vajda also joined. The weather was stunning and everyone was happy with the conditions, the training environment and the facilities.

19-12-2014

Interview with Victoria Schwarz and Fernando Fernandes

Interview with sprint athletes Viktoria Schwarz from Austria and Fernando Fernandes from Brazil.

13-12-2014

Olympic reforms for sprint and slalom - attractiveness, understandability, smaller

The Olympic Games will become more colourful and exciting. This is why cut backs have to be made. Some sports may face losing their character.

07-12-2014

Brigden-Jones and Flood impress at the Blue Lakes Regatta in New Zealand

Jo Brigden-Jones and Naomi Flood reaped the benefits of a three week training block by recording some impressive results at the Blue Lakes Regatta in Rotorua, New Zealand on Saturday.

30-11-2014

K4 wins first gold ever for Kazakhstan at the 2014 Asian Games: next step Rio!

Ilya Golenda, Daulet Sultanbekov and Andrey Erguchev are three quarters of a Kazakh K4 team who have all just turned 20. They are considered heroes of their team as they have won Kazakhstan’s first kayaking gold medal at the Asian Games. Joining these three young athletes is the experienced competitor Alexander Emelyanov, who has experience of winning medals at the Asian Games and is 10 years older than his teammates.

21-11-2014

Sprint World Champion Josef Dostál helps to test a new K1 for rough conditions

Recently, Dostál has been on holiday to Paris, picking mushrooms in a forest near his family’s cottage and relaxing in Hawaii. He also completed a marathon race in Bohemia, where he suffered excruciating pain after struggling to finish. But as we speak, Josef Dostál, the K-1 and K-4 1000m World Champion, is diligently preparing for the new racing season. During November he is exchanging the cloudy Czech weather for sunny California.

14-11-2014

Update on Team Germany’s preparation for the pre-Olympic canoe sprint season

Instructed by the newly assigned national trainer, Kay Vesely, the kayak ladies took first trainings measures in preparation for the new season. “Set common training goals” is the motto of this one- week training course.

13-11-2014

Interview with Sarah Guyot - Team France catches sight of Rio

A few weeks ago the French canoe sprint teams were training by age and category. The juniors were in Nancy (East of France), the senior kayak men in Vaires-sur-Marne (Paris area) and the kayak women in Cesson-Sévigné (Brittany) under the leadership of Claudine Leroux.

10-11-2014

Olympic Games officials approved of the canoeing lake in Rio, despite the presence of algae

During their visit to Rio de Janeiro, representatives of 13 National Olympic Committees (NOC), among them former rowing and canoeing athletes, praised many beautiful areas in the city. Yet at the same time they expressed concern about the chaotic traffic in the area.

08-11-2014

Video teaser 2015 ICF World Championships Canoe Sprint Portugal

The promotional video for the upcoming ICF Canoe Sprint events in Portugal ( Montemor-o-Velho) in 2015: Canoe Sprint World Cup I and ICF Canoe Sprint Juniors & U23 World Championships.

05-11-2014

Tomasz Kryk optimistic about the upcoming kayaking season!

It’s no secret that the women are the stand-outs on the kayaking team. Tomasz Kryk's charges are still nursing injuries; however, the 'Rio de Janeiro' operation will soon get underway, because the Olympic qualifiers are planned for the World Championships in August next year.