Archive for the ‘Boating’ Category
For the last three years, waterfall huckster Rafa Ortiz has been sizing up the grand-daddy of them all, Niagara Falls.
Yesterday, with all the pieces in place for the historic first descent, he walked away from the 167-foot behemoth.
“I walked to the drop like I’ve done with many waterfalls in the past, looking for that last positive feeling,” the Mexican phenom said in a Facebook post. “It was not there.”
Ortiz, who ran 189-foot Palouse Falls last year … More
America’s Cup, the competition for the oldest trophy in international sport, will celebrate its 162nd birthday this week. It was August 22, 1851, when the yacht America beat the best of the British fleet in a race around the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England.
The trophy won on that day was later donated through a Deed of Gift to foster ‘friendly competition between foreign countries’, and has represented the pinnacle of the sport ever since … Pictures and more
Son Dane had just been born when Eric Jackson won his first freestyle kayaking world championship in 1993; now they’re preparing to compete against each for the coveted title of world champ.
Eric Jackson, a member of the USA Team in freestyle kayaking an impressive 25 years running, will be seeking his fifth world championship at the ICF Canoe Freestyle World Championships next month in what will be a family first.
It’ll be father vs. son in the world championships.
They’ve been competing against one another for … Pictures and more