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Natal Canoe Club produces its best results yet at the 2016 Dusi

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The past weekend’s FNB Dusi Canoe Marathon was a huge success for Pietermaritzburg's Natal Canoe Club (NCC). Not only did NCC’s Andy Birkett stand on top of the men’s podium and Abby Adie win the women’s race, but the NCC Development Team produced its best results yet.
Lawrence upstages Fox to win K1 National title

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Rosalyn Lawrence has produced a sizzling run in the women’s K1 final to upstage London Olympic silver medalist Jessica Fox at the Australian Slalom Championships in Tasmania today.
The magic of the Amazon: A river that flows invisibly all around us

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On a typical sunny day in the Amazon, 20 billion metric tons of water flow upward through the trees and pour into the air, an invisible river that flows through the sky across a continent.
Paddle For The Planet celebrates 5th anniversary

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The ground-breaking global Paddle For The Planet project will celebrate its fifth anniversary when the world-wide paddling relay in support of ocean and river environmental awareness takes place on 6 June.
Spain’s most successful Olympian David Cal says goodbye

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After three intense days of rumors and give and takes, an emotional David Cal officially announced his retirement from professional sport. From the town hall of his home village Cangas de Morrazo, the Galician canoeist commented in a press conference that he didn’t feel "comfortable" lately, "lost motivation" and the desire to continue competing.
Canoe sprint team Poland trains in Montebelo, Portugal

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Monika Marczak - This season, the female kayakers want to qualify six spots for the Olympics. Coach Tomasz Kryk already has a vision for preparations for participating in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
Faster, stronger, quicker – deliberate practice

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It is, as every athlete is crucially aware his or her physical Training that has the greatest degree of net positive effect on performance. Which is precisely why, day in day out, rain or shine the elite athlete is committed to and dedicated to his or training regimen. It is the biggest influenceable variable on performance outcome.
IOC President Thomas Bach and Jessica Fox discuss changes to the Olympic Games

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International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach today revealed the 40 proposals that make up Olympic Agenda 2020, a strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement, which will be discussed and voted on by the full IOC membership at the 127th IOC Session this 8 and 9 December in Monaco.
ICF pushes Canadian canoeing in South Africa

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Fresh off the success of Team South Africa at the International Canoeing Federation (ICF) Canoe Marathon World Championships in Oklahoma City in September, where the men's kayak team claimed the world number one ranking, Canoeing South Africa (CSA), together with the ICF, is making a push to popularise Canadian canoeing.
900 million rubles invested in new regatta center for Astrakhan, Russian Federation

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The building of water and paddle sports centre is underway in the village of Yaksatovo in the region of Astrakhan, Russia. This year, the regional government has allocated 900 million rubles for the construction of this new centre.
Women Canoeists Shine at European Sprint Championships

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With more than three thousand lakes and over thirty-three thousand kilometers of rivers and streams, Brandenburg, Germany was the ideal spot to host the 2014 ECA Canoe Sprint European Championships. The conditions for this year’s championships were at times more suitable for a surf ski or sailing competition, but the athletes who train in rough conditions showed their mettle.
Sam Phungula at the ICF Development Programme in Morocco

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Sam Phungula, who spearheads Natal Canoe Club's (NCC) development programme with Thuthu Manyathi, recently attended a four-day course put on by the International Canoeing Federation (ICF) and focusing on C1 (Canadian) canoeing in Morocco.
Youngest ever marathon world champion Cam Schoeman retires

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Former K2 world marathon champion Cam Schoeman (pictured right) has announced his retirement from competitive paddling. The Natal Canoe Club star can look back on a sparkling career laden with highlights.
How do we make canoe sport bigger?

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GB Canoeing have called in consultants to advise them on how to make sprint canoeing – that’s high kneeling rather than kayaking – a bigger, better sport.
Record ninth Dusi title for Ulansky

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Dusi Queen Abbey Ulansky clinched a record ninth career victory on Saturday when she and her partner, fast emerging Dusi Princess Robyn Kime, held off a valiant effort from Abby Adie and Anna Adamová to clinch a hard-fought victory in the women’s race of the 2014 Dusi Canoe Marathon.
On the ergometer with 200 meter sprint specialist Petter Menning

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How do you make your canoeing training as effective as possible when you can't go out on the water? It's a question that's occupied a lot of minds in Europe this winter as the continent was repeatedly lashed by floods, high winds and freezing temperatures.
Day 2 - Women’s Dusi still too tight to call

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2014 Dusi Canoe Marathon overnight women’s race leaders Robyn Kime and Dusi Queen Abbey Ulansky managed to stretch their already slender lead ever so slightly on Friday’s second stage from Dusi Bridge to Inanda Dam however just ninety seconds now separates them from their chasers and the tight affair promises to produce a fascinating final day’s contest on Saturday.
A day of salvage and supremacy in Dusi men’s race

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Friday’s second stage of the 2014 Dusi Canoe Marathon quickly became the Birkett/Zondi show as the overnight leaders piled the pressure onto their chasers, increasing their overnight five and a half minute lead to a mammoth nine minutes and now have one hand firmly on the coveted Player Family winner’s trophy.
Neck and neck in Dusi 2014’s women’s clash

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The women’s opening encounter of the 2014 Dusi Canoe Marathon was a hard-fought affair which sees Robyn Kime and Abbey Ulansky a mere twenty nine seconds ahead of Abby Adie and Czech Republic’s Anna Adamová going into Friday’s second stage.
Environmentalists tackle Dusi sand miners

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A month of crackdowns on sand-mining syndicates operating on the uMsundusi and the uMngeni Rivers by the canoeist’s environmental group the Dusi Umgeni Conservation Trust (DUCT) and local municipal officials has blown the cover on many of these covert operations.
Olympic Champion Baillie to retire from canoe slalom

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Tim Baillie, who with C2 partner Etienne Stott made history in the London 2012 Olympics by winning a first gold medal for GB in the sport of canoe slalom, has decided to retire from the sport. Best friends since teenagers and a highly popular team on the international circuit, the pair enjoyed one of sport’s longest running partnerships which spanned nine seasons.
Sudan Olympic solidarity course canoe sprint for coaches

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The International Canoe Federation (ICF) and the Olympic Solidarity offered their third Sprint Canoe Coach’s course for Levels 1 and 2 this past December.
Czech and Slovak athletes play tournament in memory of Michal Makovský

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On the 4th and 5th January 2014, the seventh annual floorball tournament was held in Praha-Troja in the Czech Republic. A mixture of slalom, rafting, downriver, sprint and polo paddlers came to try out their skills in this new sport. This particular tournament was founded in 2008 by Michal Makovský, who passed away unexpectedly last year.
2013 ICF Canoe Sprint Senior World Championships - Women’s Canoe

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Canada's reigning World Champion and unbeaten - Laurence Vincent Lapointe - is back on the line to defend her C1 and C2 titles. In the C2, she is teaming with Sarah-Jane Caumartin after the retirement of 2-time World Champion Mallorie Nicholson.
Ivan Lawler: women’s canoeing and the Olympics

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Sportscene recently published Ivan Lawler's career memoirs, the five-time marathon World Champion also took time to talk to us about the future of women's canoe sprint.
Kiwis launch kayak paddle power meter

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It’s the invention you never knew you needed. It’s certainly a world first – a paddle with a built in power monitor, to tell you how much effort you’re putting in and whether you need to put, well, a bit more in.
Depression and comeback in sport

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It takes resilience to compete at the highest levels of our sport, and even the most successful competitors will experience the pain and disappointment of failure at some time in their careers.
IOC terms for women’s canoeing

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Women’s canoe events could conceivably make it to a future Olympic programme but it would only be at the cost of an existing canoe or kayak discipline. That was the clear message from the International Olympic Committee which spelled out the hard facts to international sports federations two days ago.
Sports business and psychology experts Performance1 on-board

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Coaching leaders and teams in the art of success, Performance1 confirms their relationship with Sportscene.
Review women’s C1 and C2 at the World Cup Canoe Sprint in Račice

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Continuing their strong showing from 2012, this year’s second World Cup in Račice, Czech Republic, boasted a competitive contingent of women canoers from across the globe.
What keeps you going as an athlete? About Mastery Motivation.

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Over the 2012 World Cup and Olympic slalom competitions, the eighteen chances to stand on the podium were taken by 13 different K1 men and 10 different K1 women.
Laszlo Toth nominated to coach Canada’s Women’s Kayak Team

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Laszlo Toth is nominated as coach of Canada's women’s kayak team. Toth comes from the paddling powerhouse of Hungary and has coached some of the country’s top paddlers, including 2004 Olympic Champion Botond Storcz.
Kayaker Josefa Idem in Italian Cabinet

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German-born Olympic canoe star Josefa Idem, who retired after the London Olympic Games, has been appointed to the Italian Cabinet as Minister for Sport and Equality. The five-time Olympic medalist went to eight separate Olympic Games and is arguably one of the most successful female kayakers ever.
Strengthening Olympic values in the Amazon forest, Peru

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Canoe/kayak has been an Olympic sport since 1936 and is very popular in several countries, including as a national sport. It is also a sport that, besides enhancing physical development, can be used for the transmission of social and environmental values and integration between various groups and ethnicities.
Tim Brabants retires

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Tim Brabants, Britain’s most successful Olympic canoeist, has announced his retirement from the sport.
Academic report shuns Rogge’s “major boost for gender equality” at London 2012

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Peter and Michele Donnelly, University of Toronto, have released a report analysing whether London 2012 was in fact a model for gender equality in sport. Results are, despite more female athletes competing in every sport and from every nation, startling -there are still major inequalities across the majority of participating to be addressed!
Australia in the need for speed

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AC has appointed Mike Pond as an interim 200m Coordinator to implement a nationally coordinated approach to the 200m events. National Performance Director, Richard Fox, said the initiative, which has been branded as a "Need for Speed", is designed to create a clearer focus on the specific requirements of 200m racing.
How to deal with doubt and making major decisions

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Decisions, decisions. Competitors are faced with choices all the time. Do I respond to the unexpected challenger in the next lane or stick to my race plan in a 1000 m race? Which line do I take on this upstream gate? What races should I do this season? Should I work with a new coach? Do I retire or keep going for another season?
Ratcliffe named as GB’s chief slalom coach

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Olympic silver medalist Paul Ratcliffe has been appointed GB Canoeing’s Canoe Slalom Podium Head Coach.
Canada revamps women’s kayak coaching

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Fancy a coaching job in Canada? The country’s national governing body for canoeing is looking for a top Women’s Kayak Coach. Reporting to the country’s newly appointed high performance director, Scott Logan, the ideal candidate will already have a successful track record of coaching at international level.
Women’s C1 will be on the XVII Pan American Games in Toronto 2015

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PASO approved the Sprint and Slalom Competition Programmes submitted by COPAC for the “XVII Pan American Games, Toronto2015” with the inclusion of the C1 women event for both disciplines
Women’s Canoe - Long Overdue

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An In-Depth Analysis as to Why Women’s Canoe Isn’t in the Olympics
A Nelo-Molmenti collaboration: the new DM350 slalom boat

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Originally a leading sprint manufacturer, Portuguese company Nelo has released a top secret slalom design with the help of London Olympic K1 gold medallist, Italy's Daniele Molmenti.
Katrina van Wijk exploring new frontiers for women’s extreme kayaking

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Taking a break from editing her new women's whitewater film, Canada's Katrina van Wijk has a whistle-stop heart-to-heart with Sportscene about her career, the 2012 Whitewater Grand Prix and her project TiTS Deep that is gaining incredible momentum on Facebook.
Italian canoeing great Josefa Idem calls time on career

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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.
IOC rejects Hungarian women’s K4 medal query

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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.
Tony Estanguet hangs up his paddles

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Three-time Olympic canoe champion Tony Estanguet announced his retirement today.The charismatic Frenchman, who won the men’s C1 title in London to add to the titles he scooped in Sydney and Athens – told his fans on Twitter...
Upstream battle for Olympic canoe gender equality

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In an Olympiad of so many gender revelations, canoeing remained unbalanced in London with females losing out 2:1 in the sprint with eight male categories to four and 3:1 in the slalom. Serious questions need to be raised before Rio 2016.
Towards gender equality in canoe slalom in 2016

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Currently at the Olympic Games in Canoe Slalom it is only possible for one female athlete per nation to compete out of a possible 5 athletes. Can the sport make steps towards gender equity before the next Olympics?
Campbell Walsh, one of Britain’s finest Canoe Slalom athletes retires

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After 26 years since I first went in a kayak, 23 years of slalom competitions, 19 seasons as a member of a GB team, 13 years of considering myself a full-time athlete...