I have too much to do at home and decided to skip NTT this time. I got a call from someone at the course around 10:45 - make up races from saturday finals finished at 10:30 am and they were finally starting the 500s. I feel for the paddlers, officials and supporters - I hear the conditions haven't improved much.

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Meanwhile at World Cup 1 in Račice, Czech Republic...

Adam has launched his 2009 season with a gold. In the K1 1000m, he posted the fastest time at all the splits and won the gold in three minutes 38.492 seconds. Rene Holgten-Poulsen of Denmark was second in 3:39.969 and Anders Gustavsson of Sweden was third in 3:40.355

Results for C1 1000m (keeping in mind all our guys are at NTT);

1st FRA Mathieu Goubel 4:06:159

2nd UZB Vadim Menkov 4:08:003

3rd POL Marcin Grzybowski 4:09:679

K1 500m

1st FRA Sebastien Jouve 1:36:614

2nd SWE Anders Gustavssen 1:37:448

3rd DEN René Holten-Poulsen 1:38:524

C1 500m

1st UZB Vadim Menkov 1:47.420

2nd BLR Dzianis Harazha 1:47.716

3rd LTU Jevgenij Suklin 1:47.836

Oh wow, results for the 5000m?? I am so out of the loop.

K1 5000m

1st BLR Aleh Yurenia 18:09,0

2nd CAN Adam van Koeverden 18:09,2

3rd ITA Maximilian Benassi 18:12,0

C1 5000m

1st POL Marcin Grzybowski 20:57,5

2nd RUS Pavel Petrov 20:58,0

3rd ROU Iosif Chirila 21:30,6