And Friday? A
whole lot more
Oh Canada!!
... Canucks everywhere you look, in every final race ...
Out of three 500 metre Grand Finals (Mixed - Junior, Senior, Premier), three 2K Champs (Mixed - Junior, Senior, Grand Dragon), and one "best 2-of-3 times sum" 500m (GD Mixed):
Junior Mixed 500m: 2nd (A crew) & 3rd (B crew)
Senior Mixed 500m: 1st (A crew), 2nd (B crew)
Premier Mixed 500m: 2nd
Junior Open 2K: 2nd (B crew), 3rd (A crew)
Grand Dragons Open 2K: 1st
Senior Open 2K: 1st (with a 5 sec penalty - but they were still 24 secs ahead!)
(there are 2 more races on the Fri sched: Prem Open & Women 2K - but no results are yet posted)
Plus the GD Mixed crew won all 3 Rounds of the best-2-of-3: another Gold.
Double Zowie!!
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One grouch on that Network54 DB forum in Eastern Canada has been yapping about "these aren't the best paddlers (ours or other countries') ... too expensive to go to Oz ... wrong time of year", yadda-yadda.
Weeellll ...
Let's see. 500 metres is the distance most of us "regular" DB folks can relate to. We know our own PB times - and how hard it is to get to the magical "2 minutes" ... or even to shave even 1 second off our PBs.
The fastest 500m time on Friday - across all races, all divisons - was the Yanks, in the Premier Mixed final. But none of the teams in that race were what you could call slugs:
U.S. 1:53.16, Can 1:53.67, Aus 1:53.83, China 1:54.20, Ger 1:54.88, Macau 1:55.14
(just found a place with a mess of pix - check out this one, & several either side, for that race: close!)
http://www.evansalbum.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_gallery2&Itemid=28&g2_itemId=1767In the Senior Mixed final, it was a hair slower (Canada A 1:55.05) - but all 6 boats were still under 2 mins.
In the Junior Mix Final: 1:58.28 for Germany, 2:00.84 & 2:02.52 for Canada A & B, down to the Kiwis in 6th at 2:03.95.
The Canuck GD Mixed's 3 race times were 1:59.96, 2:01.62 & 2:01.37.
2 minutes plus or minus times all over elsewhere on the Friday timesheets, too - Heats, Semis, Reps, Finals.
Hmmmmm ..... seems obvious to me that these
are The Best Paddlers, bud!!
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