
This video with para-canoeist David Rolfe was produced for the ICF (International Canoe Federation). In February we met David Rolfe in Australia. David is a 2000 Paralympic Games bronze medallist in swimming but it was canoeing that was his passion and a decade on from his triumph at the Sydney Games, Rolfe competed in the two Paracanoe events at the 2010 Oceania Open. He is now busy spreading the word about the application of Paracanoe to the Paralympic calendar in the 2016 Rio Games. "The K1 200 race itself as a race is still very new in Australia and has only been around for three months," he enthused, and his plan is "for me to be a messenger, to let the younger people with a disability know that it's there. Kayaking is such a fun and wonderful sport." We will see him in Poznan too for the Paracanoeing events at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championship in August. Watch him in this Sportscene.tv production talk about his background, the challenges of Paracanoeing and how he got started on this growing sport.
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