The decision to appoint Australian Scott Gardner as the new head coach for GB Canoeing’s sprint programme is a sign of the distance that the sport has come in recent years. Time was, amateur sports, like canoeing, would pick amateur…
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Gardner an inspired choice for GB canoeing
Tagged with: GB canoeing, Kerri-Anne Payne, olympic canoeing, Scott Gardner, tim brabants, Victoria Pendleton
Posted in Olympic Canoeing
Posted in Olympic Canoeing
GB Olympic canoeists lose Tesco support
Supermarket giant Tesco is to stop sponsoring the British Olympic sprint and slalom canoeing team. The retailer has been the lead commercial partner of GB Canoeing and its Olympic programme since late 2010 when its sponsorship deal was first announced.
Tagged with: BCU, British Canoe Union, GB canoeing, John Anderson, olympic canoeing, Tesco
Posted in Olympic Canoeing
Posted in Olympic Canoeing
Uncertain future for Munich regatta course
The authorities in Germany are mulling over the future of the country’s Olympic canoe regatta course in Munich. The 2,000m long facility in the Oberschleißheim district of Munich is now more than 40 years old and showing its age. It’s…
Post-Olympic blues for elite job seekers
There are numerous reports that some of the sports stars we were cheering on during the Olympic Games last summer are in another race – for a job. According to the reports, many athletes have stopped competing and are now…
Tagged with: BCU, Ben Brown, Georgina Harland, olympic canoeing, tim brabants
Posted in Olympic Canoeing
Posted in Olympic Canoeing
Canoeing languishes in newspaper poll: vote now!
The Wall Street Journal, the authoritative voice of the US financial sector, has a poll asking readers which sport should have been dropped from the Olympic sporting programme. As we wrote yesterday, wrestling was dropped. But of the 5 sports which…
