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Interview with sprint star Lisa Carrington

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We caught up for a chat with Lisa Carrington a week before the 2015 World Canoe Sprint Championships. She was spending her final training camp along with the rest of the New Zealand team in Training in Paradise – paddling on lakes Bled and Bohinj (Slovenia).
“Whatever race we do, we want to win it!”

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“Whatever race Henrik Vasbanyai and I do the only option for us is victory”, said Robert Mike Canoe paddler very determined.
Katalin Kovacs - “No body forces me with a gun to paddle”

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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.
Bridgitte Hartley gearing up for Olympic qualification ahead of Rio 2016

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For Natal Canoe Club sprint star Bridgitte Hartley there was one clear highlight in 2014: "Winning a bronze medal at the World Championships," she said without hesitation. That result confirmed that the 2012 London Olympic Games bronze medallist remains among the world's elite sprinters.
Interview with Thomas Bach: Inside the 2020 revolution

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A new dawn has come for the International Olympic Committee (IOC). After IOC President Thomas Bach's unanimously successful Agenda 2020 vote in December 2014, the time for implementation of change has arrived. AIPS President Gianni Merlo spoke to Thomas Bach about where the IOC now stands in terms of implementing new rules, and what some of Agenda 2020's more abstract points mean in reality.
Gordan Harbrecht - On the way to Rio as lone fighter

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The 29-year old sprint canoe athlete Gordan Harbrecht often trains alone. His big goal is to participate in the Olympic summer games in Rio 2016. The Rostock- athlete sees his chances especially in the K4.
Marathon Champ Renata Csay pushes back ‘the moment of goodbye’

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Renata Csay has achieved the 15th World Champion title of her sports career in Oklahoma. As the most successful female marathon kayak paddler of the town Győr, she's an icon in the town and a real role model in the international field.
Interview with Victoria Schwarz and Fernando Fernandes

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Interview with sprint athletes Viktoria Schwarz from Austria and Fernando Fernandes from Brazil.
„Paddling is perfect for us“

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With Claus Wotruba, the kayak athletes Christian and Dominik Mathes from Regensburg talk about their big goal: the Paralympics 2016 in Rio. Christian Mathes is proud owner of a world cup bronze medal. In 2016 the athlete from Regensburg wants to compete at the Paralympics in Brazil.
Interview with Victoria Schwarz and Fernando Fernandes

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Interview with sprint athletes Viktoria Schwarz from Austria and Fernando Fernandes from Brazil.
K4 wins first gold ever for Kazakhstan at the 2014 Asian Games: next step Rio!

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

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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.
Paracanoeist Jeannette Chippington looking back to the Moscow worlds and forward to Rio

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By winning 2 golds at the 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Moscow in August, Great Britain's Jeanette Chippington now has 8 world titles to her name. After a solid season she looks back on Russia and her swimming days past as well as to the immediate future as the Rio Paralympics approach.
Interview with Sarah Guyot - Team France catches sight of Rio

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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.
Interview with Olympic Sprint Champion and mother Krisztina Fazekas-Zur

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Olympic Champion Krisztina Fazekas-Zur had only managed to go home and visit her family in Hungary for a week before she left again Tuesday 30 September for California in order to start preparations for the 2015 racing season.
Aleksei Korovashkov - “I want to win gold at Rio 2016”

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The 22 year old Russian athlete Aleksei Korovashkov triumphs at the world canoe championships in Moscow, coming away with 3 golds and 1 silver medal.
Yuri Cheban’s mother claims her victorious son “…went to fight for his land”

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The Sprint world championships held in Moscow ended with a triumphant victory for Yuri Cheban, an Olympic champion at the London 2012 Olympic Games and an ‘Honoured Sportsmaster’ in his home country of Ukraine.
Portrait of Viktoria Schwarz: A kayak queen paddles towards a golden future

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In 2011 kayak world champion with Yvonne Schuring, Viktoria Schwarz now targets an Olympic gold medal in Rio 2016 with her new K2-partner. ”Of cause it is our goal to win a medal, but we know it will be hard. This is the dream of every athlete and we will give our best to duly represent Austria” says Viktoria, who has been at Olympic Games twice.
Marta Walczykiewicz: I trusted the coach and after the warm up, my form exploded!

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  Interview with Marta Walczykiewicz: a KTW Kalisz (Kaliskie Towarzystwo Wioślarskie – Kalisz Rowing Association) kayaker, world champion and two-time runner up at the World Championships on the regatta course in Moscow.
Building strong relationships with journalists

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Nurturing your relationships with journalists is crucial if you’re hoping to tell your story to a broader audience. Journalists in the sport industry are a passionate bunch. Be good to them and they’ll be great to you. So, how can you be good to them?
Clint Robinson interviews legendary waterman Oscar Chalupsky

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Few paddlers hold a record comparable to that of Oscar Chalupsky, who began his multiple water sports career during his school years.
Interview with marathon star Hank McGregor

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Benoni's Homestead Lake hosts the South African Canoe Marathon Championships on 7 and 8 June, with the standard of competition expected to be at an all-time high. Included among the entrants are reigning and three-time world champion Hank McGregor and under-23 world champ Andy Birkett.
Ekaitz Saies: “The journey’s more important than the destination”

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Life lessons over a coffee with 2-time K1 4x200m World Champion Ekaitz Saies in his home-town San Sebastian, Spain.
Czech marathon athletes Jakub and Anna Adam(ova) love racing in South Africa

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World class Czech professional paddlers Jakub Adam and Anna Adamova arrived in South Africa six months ago, ready to tackle the Fish River Canoe Marathon. After transitioning impressively to river paddling, they returned to home this past week having put together some fine results, highlighted by podium finishes in the Dusi Canoe Marathon.
Interview with legendary ocean paddler and pioneer Dean Gardiner

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Dean Gardiner has been one of Australia’s most successful ocean paddlers for over two decades. He is regarded as one of the best downwind paddlers by his peers around the World, with his reputation backed up by outstanding results.
Interview with slalom athlete Ashley Nee - Part II

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Ashley Nee, 25 years old, began paddling slalom at the age of 10 with Valley Mill Camp. Ashley is a repeat member of the United States Junior and Senior slalom teams. Located in Bethesda, MD, Ashley lives with her dog Nepa, cat Farley, and her fiancé Ashley McEwan.
Interview with slalom athlete Ashley Nee - Part I

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Ashley Nee, 25 years old, began paddling slalom at the age of 10 with Valley Mill Camp. Ashley is repeat member of the United States Junior and Senior slalom teams. Located in Bethesda, MD, Ashley lives with her dog Nepa, cat Farley, and her fiancé Ashley McEwan.
Sprint legend Greg Barton interviewed by Clint Robinson

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One legend interviews the other legend. Clint Robinson interviews canoe sprint (and ocean racing) legend Greg Barton.
Interview with canoe sprint athlete Lydia Keefe Sampson

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Meet Lydia Keefe Sampson. Lydia grew up in Seattle, Washington surrounded by a brother and mother who paddled, and competed in Sprint Canoe and Kayak.
Interview with German slalom athlete Jasmin Schornberg

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27 Year-old Jasmin Schornberg from Germany, 2009 World Champion canoe slalom and 2012 Olympian, chats to Sportscene’s German correspondent Sabrina Barm.
A life outside training III. To the movies with Jenna Marks.

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Jenna Marks is a 23-year old canoeist and artist from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She paddles for the Banook Canoe Club on Lake Banook and has won multiple gold medals in canoeing representing her club, her province and her country. Jenna recently graduated from NSCAD in Halifax, Nova Scotia majoring in filmmaking.
The U23 World Rafting Champs from Brazil to defend their title in New Zealand

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The team will be at the 2013 WRC [World Rafting Championship] to defend their title, which they earned in 2011.
An evening with the Brazilian Canoe Slalom Team

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In a little under three years we will have crowned new Olympic Champions in canoe slalom. I had the pleasure of following the exploits as well as sharing an evening with the Brazilian canoe slalom team. Here is their story.
Interview with Russian sprint athlete Vera Sobetova

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21 year-old Vera Sobetova, one half of the K2 500m crew who won the U23 World Championship earlier this year at Niagara and competed at London 2012 in K2 500m and K4 500m, chats to Sportscene’s Russian correspondent Yuliana.
Face-to-face with Marlène Devillez, France’s freestyle phenomenum

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K1W freestyle double European Champion (2010, 2012), 7-time French Champion and this year's winner at Sort International, 'Marlou' has a tête-à-tête with Sportscene
Yuliana interviews Yuri Postrigay and Alexander Dyachenko

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Yura and I try to say something interesting and engaging about our sport for people to take an interest in it. I don’t feel like a media personality. I’m an athlete and my job is to train and race at the competitions.
Legends: Five-time marathon World Champion Ivan Lawler reflects on his fruitful career

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In the first of our new Legends series, Sportscene talks to Ivan Lawler (GBR), multiple marathon World Champion, 1-time K2 10,000m sprint World Champion and participant in 3 Olympic Games from the late 80's to the end of the 90's.
Interview with Jean-Michel Prono, ICF Chair Slalom: Cardiff, pumps and Prague

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ICF Canoe Slalom Chair Jean-Michel Prono looks back at the brilliant weekend of racing at Cardiff and looks on to Prague.
Interview with Russian sprint canoeist Ilya Pervukhin

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Ilya Pervukhin (born July, 6, 1991) is a Russian sprint canoeist. He was the winner of the World and European junior championships. He won gold medals at the European Championships in 2011 and 2013.
Cardiff World Cup: The Nick and John Diaries

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On the central island at the Cardiff International Whitewater Centre, Sportscene’s Nick Harding and John Gregory look to an exciting day of World Cup racing in this 8 minute edit.
GB slalom selection 2013: interviews with athletes and officials

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Want to know what some of the athletes were thinking at the GB slalom selection earlier in the spring? Behind-the-scenes interviews are now up on Youtube.
Interview with Belarusian sprint athlete Oleg Yurenia

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Oleg (Aleh) Yurenia, Belarusian paddler was born on May 21st 1990 in the village Pravyje Mosty (Grodno region). He has been living and training in Brest (Belarus) since 2006.
Interview with four-times canoe sprint Olympian Andreas Ihle

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Andreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (K2 1000m: 2008), a silver (K4 1000m: 2004) and a bronze (K2 1000m: 2012).
Claire O’Hara’s incredible start to the year

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In this 20-minute documentary Sportscene Director Rob schmoozes over the growing popularity of kayak-trick disciplines with World Freestyle and Squirt Champion, GB's Claire O'Hara.
There can only be one. Game, the trailer

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Polly Green just released the trailer for 'Game', a film documentary about winning in freestyle competitions. At the moment Polly is doing the final sound edit and she was happy to take a break and answer our questions below. Sportscene also supported the making of Game with footage from the 2011 World Chamionships Freestyle in Plattling, Germany.
He says, she says; meet the legendary slalom couple Heli & Vio

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This is the third interview in a series of couples interviews where we catch up with famous sports couples in the wonderful world of paddlesports. The first two interviews were freestyle couples: Peter & Nina from Slovakia and Pringle & Katya from Great Britain/Russia. Helmut aka 'Heli' and Violetta aka 'Vio' are the first slalom couple in this series.
Another season for “the First Lady from the Czech Republic” Stepanka Hilgertova

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There’s no need to introduce someone like Stepanka Hilgertova, her career achievements are breath-taking; countless World Cup podiums and international wins. Marie Sehnalová talks to Czech slalom legend Stepanka Hilgertova.
A great Dane; René Poulsen’s Rio dream

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Sprinter meets sprinter: Yuliana chats to René Holten Poulsen - Beijing 2008 Silver medalist and 2008, 2012 European Champion (K2 1000m, K4 1000m).
Jess Fox answering some hard questions concerning Women’s C1

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Sportscene Director Rob interviewed Jess Fox, London 2012 K1 slalom silver-medallist, in La Seu d'Urgell at the third World Cup Canoe Slalom about her thoughts on the gender equality issue surrounding Olympic women's canoe disciplines.
Interview with Peter Micheler – Vice President International Rafting Federation

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The 2012 Youth & Masters World Championships have come to a conclusion and Sportscene spoke to International Rafting Federation Vice President Peter Micheler post event.