Tag: Olympic Games
Canadian Olympic canoe team fires Barney Wainwright
February 16th, 2012, Comments Off
Longstanding Royal Canoe Club member and ex-Great Britain Olympic canoeing sports scientist Barney Wainwright has been let go by CanoeKayak Canada as high performance director of its Olympic canoeing programme. Barney, who worked for the BCU’s Olympic programme for a decade, was appointed to the role with CanoeKayak Canada in November 2010. Barney’s departure also [...]
Canal boat owners get an Olympic brush-off
February 8th, 2012, Comments Off
Scores of canal boats moored on the canals around the Olympic stadium in Stratford are to be moved on by the authorities or made to pay for mooring within the controlled zone due to be set up there. Currently boat owners have to pay to moor permanently but many get round this requirement by moving [...]
Olympic medal predictions
February 2nd, 2012, Comments Off
Trying to work out who’s going to be on top form at London this summer is difficult. USA Today, however, has teamed up with data provider Infostrada to produce a predictive medals table, based on recent performances and an algorithm that monitors athletes’ performances leading up to the Games. Any canoeist reading through the results [...]
Million bucks for an Olympic gold medal?
January 30th, 2012, Comments Off
Tim Brabants gets an interesting mention in a column by sports feature writer Neil Wilson who laments the money that Russian athletes allegedly stand to scoop if they win a gold medal at the London 2012 Games. According to Wilson, it emerged at a diplomatic reception** at the Russian Embassy in London recently that any Russian [...]
Are you a past or present Olympian?
January 26th, 2012, Comments Off
If you’re in the canoeing team for London 2012 or you’ve been to a previous edition of the Olympic Games, you can join the Olympic athletes’ hub on the International Olympic Committee website www.olympic.org The hub pulls together all the social media feeds and website links for all Olympic athletes past and present. The idea [...]
We’re going canoeing at, er, Tesco
January 26th, 2012, Comments Off
Supermarket giant Tesco, already a sponsor of British canoeing through a two-year deal announced in 2010, is believed to be close to securing the post-Olympic Games naming rights for the Lee Valley whitewater centre. The centre, which will be the venue for canoe slalom at London 2012, is near Tesco’s company headquarters in Cheshunt. According [...]
Tough journalistic assignments of our time – updated
January 19th, 2012, Comments Off
Nice article in the Mirror today with the newspaper’s intrepid reporter, Jeremy Armstrong, having a go in a kayak and a raft down the new Olympic slalom course at Lee Valley. The course, which is the only Olympic venue to be open before the Games for public use, has attracted widespread praise for its technical difficulty and [...]
Aussies vie for Olympic Brabants challenge – updated
January 13th, 2012, Comments Off
Australian canoeing is set for a major showdown after multiple Olympic medal-winner Clint Robinson and Beijing 500 metre K1 champion Ken Wallace revealed they are both fighting to qualify for the K1 1,000 metre event at the London Games this summer. Robinson, 39, who first won Gold in Barcelona in the K1 1,000 metres, has [...]
Olympics Watch – how are our paddlers?
January 12th, 2012, Comments Off
As Britain’s top canoeists jet off for training camps in South Africa and Florida, we’ll try to keep you posted with details of their progress and Twitter reports as they work their way towards peak performance. Jon Boyton (@jboyton), accompanied by BCU 1,000 metre coach Ian Wynne (@coachwynne), reports from his sun lounger: “Life’s a [...]
And the best of luck to all our Olympic, er, rowers.
January 9th, 2012, Comments Off
Journalists, don’tcha luv ‘em? When they’re not making up stories altogether*, they’re getting their facts wrong. Or perhaps only half-right. But, in the interests of fairness and in the defence of this particular writer, at least he realised that some form of watersport was involved, even if it was not exactly the one he’d been [...]
