Fun event on the Garonne, on the 10k race I took a good start next to Gaetan Séné until I manage to break away and take a little advantage… All of a sudden I realised that he was on the left hand side of the river, flying with the current and I was… stuck in the middle of it… By the time I get back on track where the current was the strongest I was 3rd… bugger…
I’ve lost the race but earned lot of experience… Kind of the same happened on sunday and I took 2nd of the event, I was really happy about that, Gaetan is a great paddler and an expert kayakiste, we are almost always 1st and 2nd, this time his experience in rivers with strong currents has paid off !
What really bothered me is that I was 1st in Paris and 2nd in Bordeaux, Gaetan was 2nd in Paris and 1st in Bordeau…So we were both 1st in the year ranking with 2,7 pts…
But the race director decided that because there was more people in the water in Bordeaux then Gaetan is the winner (he talked about people in the water and not registered ; in Paris out of 100 competitors only 33 selected atheletes been allowed to take the start and only 33 selected could do it)…Is it fair or is it not ? They had to make a decision, what is for sure is that there were lot more top riders in Paris than in Bordeaux so in my opinion Paris race should have had more value in our case…