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BBC News
06-07-2025
- BBC News
Photographer to recreate childhood River Spey trip in dad's canoe
A documentary photographer is to spend a year exploring the Spey using a canoe he travelled down the river in with his dad almost 30 years Smith was 10 when he made his first full descent of the 98-mile (158km) river from its source in Highlands' Monadhliath mountains to where it meets the sea at Spey Bay in 39-year-old will photograph and film the Spey and the surrounding landscape, and interview people he meets along the Mr Smith said: "I aim to capture a snapshot of what the Spey Valley looks like now." When he was a boy, Mr Smith made frequent trips to the Spey and Cairngorms with his family and also his high school in North said: "I made my first full descent of the Spey with my dad David and some of his friends."I can't remember how many days we took, but I have vivid memories of certain rapids and features on the river which I am going to be looking for."He added: "Now the river is very much my home. It's only a stone's throw away from my house and my gallery." The Spey is famous for its connections to whisky and has more than 50 distilleries, the highest number of any of Scotland's whisky Spey cast, a technique used in fly fishing on fast-flowing rivers, is named after the river and was developed in the 19th Smith said he would be documenting the industrial and leisure activities on as well as its less well-known said shipbuilding once thrived at Garmouth, a small community near the mouth of the Spey."I think the river has a bit of mystique to it," he added."It is also quite an unusual river in that it doesn't meander that much for quite a big river." He said the Spey Valley had changed since his first descent almost 30 years ago, with communities such as Aviemore, Grantown-on-Spey and Kingussie growing in 2023, beavers were reintroduced to locations near the Smith added: "There are also areas of rewilding, such as at Glenfeshie."The documentary photographer will make a summer descent of the Spey this month, and a winter one in January for his year-long Smith will also circumnavigate on a bike the Spey Basin, the river's 1,158 sq mile (3,000 sq km) catchment area, and cycle upstream from Spey Bay on the Moray Firth coast to river's source at Loch Spey."It's a very personal project, I'm very passionate about it," he said.
CBC
30-06-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Canadian sprint canoeist Katie Vincent sets world record in women's C1 500m
Canadian sprint canoeist Katie Vincent set a world record in the women's C1 500-metre event on Sunday at the national trials in Montreal. The 29-year-old Olympic champion clocked a time of two minutes 0.609 seconds in the final at the Olympic Basin, breaking the previous mark of 2:00.73 set by Alena Nazdrova of Belarus at the 2019 world championships in Szeged, Hungary. 2022 world silver medallist Sophia Jensen of Chelsea, Que., finished one spot behind Vincent in 2:03.159. Vincent, who hails from Mississauga, Ont., became the first-ever Canadian woman to capture Olympic gold in the sport last summer in Paris by winning the C1 200m race — the lone individual women's canoe sprint event at the Games. The two-time Olympian won bronze medals in Tokyo and Paris in the C2 500m event.
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Burgess wins first World Cup silver in six years
Great Britain's Adam Burgess claimed a first C1 World Cup silver since 2019 after a "pretty special" run in the heats. The 32-year-old saw off competition from Olympic champion Nicolas Gestin to finish in second, behind Slovenia's Luka Bozic. Advertisement Burgess produced a stunning run during the heats in north-east Spain to move to the top of the standings. The Stoke-born paddler was last to compete in the finals, but produced a penalty-free run to the start the season in emphatic fashion. Burgess won Olympic silver in the individual canoe at the Paris Games, having agonisingly missed out on a medal by 0.16 seconds in Tokyo in 2020. "I'm always there or thereabouts, and we have done a lot of work to try and bring out those runs in the final, and I guess today, my worst run was the final, but that heat was something pretty special," said Burgess. "It was great to come close to it again there."
BBC News
08-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Burgess wins first World Cup silver in six years
Great Britain's Adam Burgess claimed a first C1 World Cup silver since 2019 after a "pretty special" run in the 32-year-old saw off competition from Olympic champion Nicolas Gestin to finish in second, behind Slovenia's Luka produced a stunning run during the heats in north-east Spain to move to the top of the standings. The Stoke-born paddler was last to compete in the finals, but produced a penalty-free run to the start the season in emphatic fashion. Burgess won Olympic silver in the individual canoe at the Paris Games, having agonisingly missed out on a medal by 0.16 seconds in Tokyo in 2020."I'm always there or thereabouts, and we have done a lot of work to try and bring out those runs in the final, and I guess today, my worst run was the final, but that heat was something pretty special," said Burgess. "It was great to come close to it again there."
News.com.au
30-05-2025
- Business
- News.com.au
British canoeist forced to decide between Olympic dream and OnlyFans
Canoeist Kurts Adams Rozentals has a decision to make — his OnlyFans or the Olympics. The British athlete was reportedly suspended last month by governing body Paddle UK, and he suspects it has something to do with his racy activity online. 'I have been posting videos (on Instagram) that are consciously made to be edgy in order to drive conversions to my 'spicy content page' (on OnlyFans), to fund this ultimate dream of going to the Olympics,' Rozentals said in an interview with BBC Sport. Rozentals was removed from the World Class Programme, an initiative for potential Olympic athletes, by Paddle UK pending investigation, leaving his canoeing dreams up in the air. 'I kind of froze and I couldn't believe the words I was hearing because this is what I put my life into this is everything I do,' Rozentals told the outlet of the moment he heard the news. 'My personality at this point, my identity, is sport and I want to be a professional athlete chasing my Olympic dream.' BBC Sport reported Rozentals 'has more than 10,000 'likes' on the platform and 'has posted 39 videos and over 100 photos' earning more than '$A209,560 since creating his OnlyFans account in January.' 'This is the hardest decision that I've ever faced in my life,' Rozentals said. 'I came to the realisation about why I started doing this last winter after years of struggle, living on the edge, my mum working 90 hours-a-week, having bailiffs at the door.' 'I'm going to find a way where we don't have to struggle, where my mum can enjoy her life and I'm able to put everything into this sport because when you're thinking about how to pay the rent this month and you're standing at the start line, that's not very conducive (to performing well).' As a UK Paddle Programme athlete, Rozentals had been receiving $A33,529 - but said that's nowhere near enough to sustain himself.' 'I don't know how much you need but it's certainly not $A33,529,' said Rozentals. 'When you have to cover rent, travel, food… and most athletes who train full-time are all living in London.' 'They're very fortunate to have parent backing — I wasn't. I never had the ability to move to London because of financial struggles so I was always doing the travel from the East Midlands, where I live, to London, back-and-forth, back-and-forth.'
