Quick blog today with a some updates & pictures for you. I wasn't down at the site today, but back at the 'real' job, which oddly isn't blogging. What? Someday someone will pay me to do it professionally, I'm sure!
Well, we got rained out today with quite a storm! I don't think there was any hail, but there was certainly a lot of wind and rain. I believe they made it almost to the end, stopping with only about 4 or 5 races to go. It seems they are still going to try to go ahead with the medal ceremony today, though!
Here's the link to the latest medal count - New Zealand still edging out Hawaii, but lots of medals still to come. You can also click on the results link on this page to see the individual race results. Some amazing times on those turn races! Wow!
http://results.worldsprints.com/7
Here's what things looked like at the beginning of the day, when it was calm and peaceful for the boat blessing (thanks Ella Wilson for the photo!)
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| Boat blessing, day 4 |
And it really was lovely from the start. The sun came out & it was a beautiful morning. Here's a photo taken by volunteer Craig Esau:
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| A great day for racing.... so far. |
Right? So far, so good. Speaking of volunteers, here's our intrepid member of the Technical Wizardry team, Malcolm Jubinville at work adjusting one of the cameras (hopefully tying it down more for the wind!)
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| How many volunteers does it take to adjust a camera? |
And here he is again working on the video feed (thanks Valerie Krueger for this photo!)
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| Cola keeps our volunteers going! That's Alex from New Zealand in the background, and Malcolm up close. |
Here's Neil working the finish line camera (well, he's clearly on some down time here...)
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| See? Caffeine again! No wonder these volunteers are so chipper! |
And here's Brent working the social media updates:
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| That's not sunshine... it's Brent's personality! |
So that's all I've really got for today so far... pictures of the tech team! Hopefully people will send me more pics of paddlers for the next post to even things out. In the meantime, here are a couple of pictures that include paddlers that I haven't included yet in the blog, but deserve a mention. Here's the way the drinks were served at last night's barbeque - in a tin canoe! Brilliant! (Thanks to Kristine Malmqvist for the photo!)
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| Drinks - Canadian style! |
And here's a great shot (thanks again Ella) of some of the men from Team New Zealand. Hey guys, it's paddling not rugby. Kidding.... (I really don't want to make the Kiwis angry... have you seen their haka? Yikes. They scare me a little!) (Kidding again, Kiwis are very nice people.) (Not kidding.)
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| Team spirit - one of the things that makes outrigger paddling so great! |
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