Singapore World Champs update

The South African masters have piled on the medals over their past 2 days of racing showing us just how it’s done. Click here to see the ICF report on how the masters have done or you can check for updates on the ICF facebook page. Basically the coverage of this years event seems to be pretty poor and it will be difficult for anyone for to follow the senior races live… Maybe we can organize some sms updates sent out via the guys who run the SA Kayak e-mails or on twitter through @Kayakmedia? I am sure that can come together, but sorry guys, no live streaming this year…

Our new K2 (Nelo Quattro) is perfectly set up and feeling race ready. We did a very hard session in the heat today with the other SA K2 crew of Mike Mbanjwa/Eric Zondi who seem to going well and I predict a good result from them as I feel they will do well in the heat. Our K2 is still feeling solid. We got a glimpse of the top Spanish crews today, current World champs Bouzan/Fuiza, and multiple world champion Mercahn with his new partner. There are a few other potent crews here so the race is going to be insane! The heat will surely play a factor but I am not quite sure how just yet, it’s difficult to picture the race not being fast off the start? I predict the pace will be really fast but then you will get some crews paying the price later on and dropping off the pace. another major factor is the thunder storms which we have had every afternoon… After 9 deaths in Singapore from lightening just this years the organizers have been pulling us off the water to safety every time one passes by. If this happens during the race things could get interesting… no result or pace car/boat after the re-start like in F1 racing?

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