http://www.thefountainpen.com/cgi-bin/showstory?id=6074

"Woman dies at dragon boat race
Web posted on June 11, 2007

(Guelph-Eramosa Twp, Ont) A Guelph woman has died after collapsing during a dragon boat race on Sunday June 10th, 2007. The Guelph Dragon Boat Festival was being held at Guelph Lake Conservation area under the sponsorship of Facility Marketing Group, a company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. At about 11:15 am as a boat was coming to shore, one of the rowers collapsed. County of Wellington OPP and ambulance were summoned to assist while nearby onlookers administered CPR to the victim.

A 41-year-old female from Guelph was taken to Guelph General Hospital where she was pronounced dead. A post mortem was to be conducted at Guelph General Hospital on Monday June 11th, 2007 to try to determine the cause of death. At the request of her family, police are not releasing the woman's name."

RIP.

FMG race?
Her life jacket was probably on too tight.

RIP anonymous woman.

I don't think THIS is the topic thread to take shots at anyone. Let's give some respect here.

Agreed. Keep shots on another thread.

That's rough.

It's weird but this stuff always happens occasionally. We've all been hearing it in the news in all sorts of sports. Kids dying after gym or a marathon... Or even after hockey shift.... It's happened even in the NHL with that dude from detriot Jrii fischer? (sp)

Hopefully organizers won't get too anal with how safe we need to be on the water cause the article indicates she was tended to fairly quickly (I hope). And I think every regatta usually has an onsite defib.

In anycase my condolences and rip... that is pretty upsetting.

We had a rec paddler at our festival in Sudbury who had a heart attack while in a race. The organizers had a doctor on site at the festival who saved the guy at the finish line. It was a close call.

I guess that it's one of those things that could happen in this sport. Our condolences to the paddlers family.

Do FMG races have St John's on site? This isn't something that I usually look for, however, I do remember seeing them at Pickering and GWN. I know (from commercials) that many hockey arenas have the portable defibrillators on site.

I was at Guelph (paddler) and there was CPR instructers and first aid responders on site as well as volunteer fire fighters. We got an email from the organizers after the festival to let the teams know that the lady in Guelph passed away from a Brain aneurism.

It is very sad news about what happened, but being at the festival the situation was handled very professionally and our respects go out to the family and team members. It was sad what happened.

Just an uncontrollable situation, totally unrelated to paddling and to the organizers. Thoughts go out to the family and friends.