Women’s Prelims Just finished on rainy Day 2 of World Cup!

August 16, 2008

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The Rain is coming down in a big way making it cold and wet. It is
54 degrees outside for a high today with the clouds, rain, and wind from the
North. At 10:00am there was a 15 minute break with some sun, but then back
to the rain again. For the Women’s Prelims today the water didn’t come up
any, making the hole still at a perfect level. The heats took all morning
and only 10 women get to move on the next round making it a big cut. Only
a few opted for entry moves. The women performed pretty well all morning
getting some great rides. Fiona Jarvie from Great Britain nailed a
beautiful series of carwheel, clean carthweel, and super clean cartwheels
without hesitation on her opening, followed by sweet air loops and more.
Emily Jackson, the current Junior Women’s World Champion, also did her
cartwheel moves before moving on to loops and a McNasty on the right side to
take the top honors in the prelims. Adrienne, from the USA, nailed a loop
and an airloop on both rides while most of the women were finding the super
sticky hole too much to land the loops straight enough to count. It was
enough to put her in the third position in prelims, which was very cool.
Marlene from France threw a huge second ride after a disapointing first ride
to pull in 4th. Ruth Gordon, the current women’s World Champion, missed
her major moves on ride 1, but came back and threw down on ride 2 to come in
5th. Dr. Jessie Stone threw the second highest ride of the day on her
second ride, making the cut with that single ride alone! He first ride was
only 26 point, but she ended up in 8th with just 1 ride. Check out the
photos of the results sheets for complete results. I don’t have access to
electronic results, sorry!

I got to watch the C1 Prelims also and there were a few AWESOME rides that
stood out. It will be hard for me to guess top 5, however, so we’ll wait
for the official results tonight. Dane went for an aerial entry move and
flushed out of the hole and the eddy getting zero on his second ride, which
won’t put him in the next round. To add insult to injury, somebody stole
his new Ipod from the Van today that I gave him for his birthday. Poor kid
is having a rough two days.

The Men’s Kayak Quarter Finals will be shortly and I can’t imagine that the
water will stay low. I picture a fast rise during the afternoon. In this
case being seeded number one is the worst place to be! I hope it manages
to hold steady!

On the sidelines a police dog training group had a variety of dogs known for
aggression out training. Rotweilers, German Shepherds, Pit Bulls, etc.
We were daring paddlers to try running across the fields to see if they
could make it before being attacked. Nobody took us up on it. This photo
is of one of the trainers telling the dog, "good doggie, bite harder
doggie."

EJ