Those from the GTA especially (but not exclusively) may recognize a few names here.

http://www.tsn.ca/headlines/main_story.asp?id=165779

"POZNAN, Poland (CP) - Olympic champion Adam van Koeverden of Oakville, Ont., opened the World Cup season with a gold medal in the men's K-1 (kayak singles) 500-metre event Saturday.

Karen Furneaux of Waverley, N.S., added a bronze in the women's K-1 500 final,

Van Koeverden had a time of one minute 40.986 seconds for his sixth career World Cup victory. German Lutz Altepost was second in 1:41.160 while Poland's Tomasz Menselski was third in 1:41.784.

Poland's Beata Mikolajczyk won the women's event in 1:52.605. Sofia Paldanius of Sweden was second in 1:52.617 while Furneaux took third in 1:52.761. Emilie Fournel, 19, of Dorval, Que., was fourth in 1:53.265.

Attila Buday and Tamas Buday of Mississauga, Ont., were sixth in the men's C-2 (canoe doubles). Mark Oldershaw of Burlington, Ont., was sixth in the men's canoe singles while Ian Mortimer of Ottawa, Kyle Jeffery of Mississauga, Thomas Hall of Pointe-Claire, Que., and Tamas Buday were sixth in the C-4 race."

This is a dragon boat forum. Take that stuff somewhere else.

Sure this is a dragonboat forum, but we should recognize the excellence and achievement of our fellow paddlers. I've had the fortune to paddle with some of these guys and they are great people and I am happy for their success.

Lest we forget, we talked about hockey on this forum a little while ago too.

I posted this news because I feel it IS dragon boat related . Yes, the results are from canoe and kayak, but most of the paddlers it mentions have been part of successful national dragon boat team efforts for Canada and are a source of national pride in either discipline; sprint or dragon boat.

I'm sure I was among many dragon boat paddlers who watched Adam, Atilla, Tomas and Carrie (as well as others) with great interest and support when they competed at the last Olympics.

It's all paddling, right?

Thanks for the article

dragon boat is a paddle sport. those are great local paddlers... and i'm glad to hear about their success.

Don't pay attention to that one mal-adjusted 3rd year paddler who bitched. We are all interested in our fellow paddlers achievements in all paddle sports.

Congrates

I hear Jacques Villeneuve finished last in yet another Racing event.

and i think sporty spice rallied from behind in the 4th at Woodbine yesterday to surprise many with a 3 length victory.

Just thought you would want to know about similarly related sporting topics.

Jacques Villeneuve actually finished 12th at the Spanish Grand Prix after starting 22nd.

Get your facts straight, jerkass.

"Related sporting news May 15 2006, 3:04 PM

I hear Jacques Villeneuve finished last in yet another Racing event.

and i think sporty spice rallied from behind in the 4th at Woodbine yesterday to surprise many with a 3 length victory.

Just thought you would want to know about similarly related sporting topics."

Wonka you are officially retarded.

As someone who has had the honour of racing against not only Adam van Koeverden , but also the Buday bros. in DRAGON BOAT... I always like to see how they do on the international level.

But hey next time they do a story in the "life" section of the paper about the 35 year old Sales Consultant who managed to spare 3 hours a week to train for the "big local festival" and come 3rd in the D division, but thats a good thing because it means hitting the beer tent earlier then maybe you can read something a little more relevance to your life.

The sad thing is I have never touched a C-2 or K-1 in my life but it aggrevates me to see so much resentment for some atheletes who spend countless hours training to be the best in the world.

So bravo Adam... as a fellow Canadain hope you kick some but. I know you have worked for it.