Day Five The final day of competition dawned (again) soon after the GB Supporters and old bloggers arrived at the Puerto de Hierro venue. It is worth looking it up on Google Earth, the pool area is immense, and the overall venue (for sport) is something we can only dream about in the UK. However, […]
Day Four Well, we are now three quarters of the way through the competition, the sun is still blazing down, and the competition is hotting up (no pun intended). There have been some surprises during the matches, but more of that later. Also, the silly old bloggers have put together a surprise competition, which you […]
Day Three And so we come to the third day of the tournament and the second day of competition. Matches today started 30 mins later than yesterday, to enable Mr Blue Sky to turn up and lighten the proceedings. From that great song, ”the sun is shining in the sky, there’s not a cloud passing […]
Day Two An early start, 6.30 am in the lobby (5.30 in real money). Glenn has forsaken public transport and has reluctantly” accepted a lift in a squad car. George was researching the possibility of buying head torches when we arrived at the pool. Russia and the GB U21 lads were warming up when we […]
Ola, from Madrid! Day 1 – It has been a long and tiring day for us, the spectators who have travelled to Madrid for the ECA Cup competition. It started for some at around 5am, with early Squeezy Jet flights leaving London for this Iberian centre of excellence. Many miles later (and having […]
Team GB bring back 3 medals. Well done to all teams, Ladies got gold whilst the Men and U21 Ladies both got Bronze. Read all the blogs here: http://www.canoepolo.org.uk/index.php/events/internationals/team-gb-news