Tag: olympic canoeing
GB Olympic slalom selection tickets on sale
February 11th, 2012, Comments Off
The powers that be have arranged a great deal for anyone who’d like to watch the GB Olympic canoe slalom selection event at Lee Valley White Water Centre. For just £5 for adults and £1 for children you get a one-day ticket – and three-day tickets are available for the price of two. The tickets [...]
Canoeist Lani Belcher promotes tape range
February 9th, 2012, Comments Off
So what do you know of kinesiology tape? Well, it turns out it’s a big business. And Rocktape is one such product, used for treating sports injuries like shin splints, runner’s knee. According to the manufacturer, Rocktape lifts the skin away away from the muscle, which promotes blood flow. Faster blood flow means more oxygen and [...]
ICF sprint chief laments Dorney’s rowing legacy
February 7th, 2012, Comments Off
ICF sprint racing chairman Frank Garner says it’s ‘unfortunate’ that Eton Dorney’s legacy will be for rowing rather than canoeing once the London Olympic Games are over. Garner, set to be chief official for the flatwater sprint events at Eton Dorney during the London Olympic Games is a former national coach for Canada and was [...]
Get the most out of Olympic London without a ticket
February 2nd, 2012, Comments Off
A fairly gratuitous article this but the canoeing images were quite arresting! Foreign tourists thinking about coming to London are being briefed that it’ll be full of, well, foreign tourists. Hundreds of thousands of people in fact are expected to cram the capital to catch up with the Queen’s Jubilee, the Olympic Games and a [...]
Schofield on track for London
January 31st, 2012, Comments Off
The Express writes about GB K2 200m pairing Jon Schofield and Liam Heath. The piece looks at how the duo first teamed up after Jon, a former white-water paddler, and Liam, from Guildford, were casting around for a partner. The two canoeists look set for London after retaining the European 200m K2 title and a [...]
I’m a canoeist, get me out of here!
January 31st, 2012, Comments Off
Distressing news reaches us of several aspiring Olympic canoeists getting involved in some sort of celebrity-type cooking competition. Andy Daniels (not a Royal canoeist, it must be said), Jon Boyton (who is….Jon, what were you thinking?), Ed Rutherford of Elmbridge (just wait till Ivan finds out) and two others, variously described on the organisers’ blurb [...]
Sustainability and the Games
January 31st, 2012, Comments Off
An interesting article in the Evening Standard, for anyone who hasn’t seen it already, about the Olympic canoeing venue at Broxbourne (Lee Valley to you and me) and how it is going to set new standards in environmental sustainability for these Games. “The roof overhang, clad in western red cedar, and bolstered by timber louvres [...]
New ICF website for London 2012
January 30th, 2012, Comments Off
The International Canoe Federation is launching a new dedicated London 2012 canoeing website. The site will be accessible via a box on the ICF homepage in due course but for now can be found at www.canoeicflondon2012.com Tim Brabants gets a mention on the sprint canoeing history page, as does Ian Wynne. More significantly, Royal Canoe Club itself [...]
Games-time parking fines at Dorney
January 27th, 2012, Comments Off
If you’re going to watch the canoeing events at Dorney Lake during the Olympic Games you can expect to be targeted by the local council’s zealous parking enforcement team if you take your car. Plans by Windsor and Maidenhead council chiefs look set to zero in on anyone who parks illegally. London Games organisers have set [...]
Royal Veteran beats Olympic medalist
January 25th, 2012, Comments Off
Royal Canoe Club paddlers are nothing if not determined. Peter Hope turned up at the London Boat Show recently to find a canoeing test on one of the stands. The challenge? Paddle 20 metres on a canoeing ergo as fast as you can. Peter gave it a go and – extended drum roll – managed [...]
