Worrying developments over the last few days. Following what was initially an anonymous contact though my feedback form which lead to a couple of exchanges of emails and a brief meeting this morning, I was informed of some problems at the new Olympic white water site.

I cant go into details just yet as I need them to come back to me with further information first.

I would love to give you more details but I am stuck between a rock and a hard place until I hear more.

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Watch the offical clip below

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The image above is off the bbc

The new London 2012 mascots have been released and there are mixed feelings about them. Many people hoped for a British bulldog or a lion but the designers for the mascots moved away from animals and came up with a totally new idea.

The new mascots have been named Wenlock and Mandeville. They start out there life as just bit of wasted steal however they are taken home and cast into characters then magicly they come alive.

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There is a Div 3 / 4 Slalom event on the River Loddon at Readng on the 2nd / 3rd May 2010, we will not be attending this event as a club but you may borrow equipment and go to this event.

Tuesday evening is the 2nd round of the Harefield Summer Series of Marathon style races which HYM COPS are currently leading (info attached).

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This course gives a real in site to what the new Broxbourne course will look like.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8641500.stm

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Course structures complete.

Summer 2010

Slalom courses running and facility building complete.

Lake complete and filled.

Autumn 2010

Slalom courses commissioned and external landscaping complete.

Spring 2011

Centre opens to the public.

Summer 2012

Centre closes to the public for olympic games.

Spring 2013

Centre reopens to the public.

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last year there was 150,000 cubic metres of soil required to build up the 5.5m start pull walls, and to build the lake. There is now more then 500 piles now ready for the construction of the building this month.

The lake is due to be completed during the summer of 2010. It is planned to be concrete based with concreted sandbags forming the banks and walls.

The 300m Olympic course is also taking shape alone the western side of the centre. the earthworks are due to finish on the Olympic course early this year ready for concreting and the Olympic course is due to be completed in the summer of 2010.

The 160m intermediate course is also on schedule and earthworks are due to finish in the next few months ready for concreting and completion in the summer of 2010.

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Broxbourne white water canoe centre is on course to be open for public use in spring of 2011. The ground works are well under way and the foundations of the building have been completed. BWWCC will be the only brand new olympic venue to be open to the public before the olympic games in 2012. They have worked to make it not only the most depanding course in the world but the best training base for white water aswell.

Theres a new information site at YHA Lee Valley which is around 20 minite walk away from the site. this is a drop in centre and has loads of information about the new site.

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Yesterday I took part in some wild water training at Cardington, We had national team coach’s down to supports us with what we was doing and to give us some tips on what we could do to improve are stork, and times. we managed to get the white water course for a few hours and this helped us improve even further.

The day was a great event and had three different workshops. these were forward paddling technique, Turing on moving water and down water paddling.

Each of these workshops really helped my paddling as it made me think about what I was doing more.

At the end of the day the national team coach’s organized a race. The race was navigation down the white water course in the quickest time. I came first in the race with a time of 55 seconds and 2nd place came in with 59.

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On Monday I got some new kit from Hiko, the Cinch Buoyancy Aid, so you have gone to the shop to buy a new BA and you see the cinch on the shelf, from a visal look its a very nice BA and for the price you think its to good to be true, well read on and find out what I thought of the cinch.

The first time I tried it on at home i was stunned as it seemed like it was not there. The Cinch is a light BA but very effective, it is designed for white water use as well as rescue work. However I decided to put it to the test doing some flat water play boat skills, as I had no white water to hand.

This BA is super light and allows you full movement of your arms, shoulders and waits. It comes with to very handy pockets at the front for the must have items, A added extra is to have a quick release system built into the BA. This is what is needed to do live baiting white water rescues. It also has a very handy knife buckle on the front of one of the pockets giving you nice easy access to that knife when you need it. The only down side is you have a flick knife there is no pocket to store it in.

With a zip up front the Cinch can be put on like a jacket or pulled over the head as it has straps at the side and on the top to tighten the Cinch to your body.

I rate this new Buoyancy aid 9/10

Below is a slideshow of the Cinch

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