X-adventure Raid World Cup 2006

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Sport 2000 Lafuma Leads X-Adventure Raid World Cup

John Michael Flynn / 17.03.2006

Wind conditions were favourable during the open water paddle and with the breeze at their backs, the sixteen teams competing in the opening race of the X-Adventure Raid series enjoyed a fast downwind journey.

Realising the strength of Team Spyder, Sport 2000 Lafuma made it their goal to stick with the U.S. / Australian combination during the opening stage and the result turned out too be better than expected.

“We want to go near the Australian team because they are famous in canoe.� Sport 2000 Lafuma’s team spokesman told Sleepmonsters.

“With the wind and the sail it is o’k, we want to make a good place because there are many stages.�

Team Spyder, powered by Darren Clarke in the canoe leg suffered an early mishap, when their canoe capsized. It cost the highly fancied team several minutes.

“We had a couple of capsizes out there,� Spyder’s Narelle Ash said.

“The media boat came up beside us and that put us off a bit and over we went.

“We’ve removed the compression straps for the second paddle so hopefully we’ll have a little bit more stability. That was a bit of a mistake really putting compression straps on and not trialling it.�

Provision Results – Top 5 Stage 1 Canoe Paddle

1. SPORT 2000 - LAFUMA 1:01:06
2. La Clusaz-TSL-Raid 1.02.17
3. Spyder 1.06.17
4. Millie 1.06.18
5. Saab Salomon 1.0.30

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