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Florence rules out retirement as partner Hounslow looks for silver lining
RIO DE JANEIRO - David FLORENCE (GBR) dismissed all talk of retirement after becoming the first canoe slalom paddler to win three Olympic Games silver medals on Thursday.
FLORENCE, 34, and Richard HOUNSLOW (GBR) repeated their second-place finish from the London 2012 Olympic Games as Slovak cousins Peter SKANTAR (SVK) and Ladislav SKANTAR (SVK) claimed gold in what could be the final running of the men's C2 event at an Olympics.
"I am still loving canoeing," FLORENCE said. "It's a shame that it looks likely C2 will be not with us in
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New Zealand sprint kayakers comfortable with Rio chop
It's caused havoc with the rowers but New Zealand's canoe sprinters aren't worried about the Rio de Janeiro weather ahead of their Olympic race campaign.
World champion Lisa Carrington and fellow K1 paddler Marty McDowell will hit the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon first on Monday night (NZ time), followed by the women's K4 of Jaimee Lovett, Kayla Imrie, Aimee Fisher and Caitlin Ryan later in the week.
The lagoon has been the centre of mayhem in the rowing, with a number of crews sinking and the wind and chop causing two days of postponements and...Read more
Perseverance is key for Chourraut as Spain collects first K1 gold
RIO DE JANEIRO - Maialen CHOURRAUT (ESP) blew away the rest of the women's K1 field at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games to win the first canoe slalom gold medal for Spain on Thursday, 20 years and three Olympics after first taking up the sport.
CHOURRAUT showed all of her experience and stamina to clock a time more than three seconds quicker than Luuka JONES (NZL) in silver and the event favourite Jessica FOX (AUS) in bronze at the Whitewater Stadium.
"I have been working every day, taking it step-by-step to get to this point of winning the Olympic gold medal," the...Read more
Swashbuckling Czechs roll out of medal contention
For 22 gates the enthusiastic Rio crowd had whooped and hollered in appreciation as the Czech Republic C2 team of Marek Sindler and Jonas Kaspar sizzled down the course at breakneck speed.
All the time comparisons were looking good. Sindler and Kaspar were ahead of the clock, and looked certain to finish on the podium, possibly with a gold.
But then it all went badly wrong. Pivoting out of gate 22, and looking to snatch every available millisecond they could, the canoe went over. Upside down.
The crowd gasped, realising a likely medal had gone wanting.
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K1 final makes history as New Zealand and Australia take podium positions
New Zealand has won its first ever Olympic canoe slalom medal, and Oceania has filled two out of the three podium places in an historic day of racing in the K1 women’s final in Rio.
27-year-old Luuka Jones, competing in her third Olympics, finished second and Australian 20-year-old Jessica Fox thirdbehind Spain’s MaialenChourraut in an action-packed final.
“To be on the podium today with Jess, I mean she is an incredible athlete,” Jones said.
“It is a European-dominated sport, and that’s why we have to travel so much. So to have two women from Oceania on...Read more
Werro brothers ready to give return on shareholders' investment
When Swiss brothers Lukas and Simon Werro picked up a 50 second penalty during their first run of the C2 heats in Rio on Monday there was a whole army of benefactors who let out a collective gulp.
Far more than many athletes in Rio, the journey of the Werro brothers to the Olympics was very much a collective effort.
“In canoeing in Switzerland it’s pretty tough, if you want to be in the professional level like everyone else,” Lukas Werro said.
“We have to be a bit inventive, so this year to fund one of our training camps we decided to try out crowd funding.
“It...Read more
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