mahe drysdale

Another whirlwind tour of the world

Well the end of October is nearly upon us which means I have nearly been away from NZ for a month already. Time has flown by and I have done a lot in the last few weeks. It has all been fun but I need a few days to relax and recover from the barrage [...]

Nathan Cohen bate Mahe Drysdale em Boston

O remador Nathan Cohen, que terminou em 4 lugar nos ultimos Jogos Olimpicos em 2xH, venceu a ultima edicao da Head of Charles. O jovem remador conseguiu esta vitoria vencendo o triplo campeao do mundo Mahe Drysdale. Cohen, que remou por Invercargill, venceu Drysdale pela primeira vez com um tempo de 17:33 e vantagem de [...]

Olympic Bronze

I’ll start with a competition, TVNZ and Mitsubishi are giving away a car to an Olympian and one voter in the competition, so if you want to win a car and try and win me one too, you can go to the following link and vote before midday Sunday (tomorrow NZ time) http://olympicoutlander.tvnz.co.nz/ Now back [...]

Semis (Im in the final, just!)

Well thankfully with my win in the Quarters I was given what looked to be the slightly easier semi (if there is such a thing) we had three top guys Synek, Campbell and myself (the three winners of world cups this year) but then the others in the semi, Greece, Lithuania and USA were all [...]

Quarter Final

After the heat the attention was quickly diverted to the Quarter finals. I had drawn a much tougher one than my heat with Lassi Karonen and Sjoerd Hamburger expected to be my main competition. Each round the intensity heats up and I was expecting a fairly tough one. Conditions for the race where pretty nice, [...]

Opening ceremony and heats

Again I am behind but have become addicted to resting and trying to watch as much of the Olympics as is humanly possible. I think I have almost seen every gold medal performance so far, although have to watch it in Chinese commentary, so some sports have been hard to work out exactly what’s going [...]

Drysdale e Karsten vencem em Amesterdão.

Mahe Drysdale, o triplo Campeão do Mundo, foi o grande vencedor da Holland Beker. Tomou a liderança aos 500m e foi cimentando-a acabando com 3 segundos de vantagem sobre o segunda classificado, Lassi Karonen. ‘Everything went according to plan, I was in control and after three attempts finally I won” Em 2005 e 2007 ficou [...]

Around the world in 39 Days

Since I last touched base time has flown! I have had a nice break, visited Beijing, got back into training then set off on a whirl wind tour of the world to race and train in eight different cities, six different races, five different countries in the space of five and a half weeks or [...]

Mahe Drysdale e Lassi Karonen

Estes dois atletas de renome mundial fizeram um primeiro estágio de inverno, em Avis, com Avizaqcua Team Center. Desfrutaram das excelentes condições desta barragem e aproveitaram para nos falar um pouco sobre o seu treino e amizade. Last Stroke – Há quanto tempo são amigos? Lassi & Mahé: Conhecemo-nos e falamos a primeira vez em [...]