Adidas Sickline 2013

posted by on 2013.10.10, under Whitewater
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This year I decided to go check out the Adidas Sickline Kayak World Championships. Its not the first time I have tried to go to Sickline, I nearly went there two years ago but ended up breaking my collarbone about 2 weeks before the race which put a bit of a damper on that plan. Then last year it was too far to travel but this year I was working in Voss over the summer which is a lot closer to Austria comparative to New Zealand.

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This year was a pretty good year to attend Sickline because it is only the 2nd year ever that the race organisers have allowed the women to race on the Wellebruke section of the race course, formerly they were only allowed to race on the section starting at the minus 1 rapid through champions killer and down through a grade 2/3 section. Considering that this year 4 men had DNF results in the race 2 of which were in the top 26 final and only 1 women had a DNF (and she went on to get the 2nd fastest time in the second round) and Nouria Newman’s time in the final would have placed her number 11 in the men’s superfinal, I think its a little bit arrogant of the race organisers to say that only the top 3 or only the top 5 fastest women are good enough to paddle the Wellebruke section. From my experience women are just as rational and level headed as men when it comes to making decisions on what they can and can’t paddle.

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Nouria Newman ripping it up on the racecourse

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Keeping warm and dry on the glacier melt in my Palm drytop

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Martina styling it in some new Palm gears she picked up from the paddle expo

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Safety first.. The Austrians love safety and tight wetsuits

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Me lining up the boof at champions killer

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Finalists

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Cheers Olaf and the race organisation crew for and awesome event!

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