COLORADO TRIP GO PRO MOUNTAIN GAMES, RIVER SURF & SUP CROSSING
Every year at the beginning of June, the river supers meet at Vail in Colorado for the Go Pro Mountains Games. This a new second opportunity for Nicolas Fayol to go back and spend 10 days there for contests, river surfing, a discovery of mountains lakes, river rafting. Nicolás Fayol
Clarisse Labussiere. Nicolás Fayol
The Go PRO MOUNTAIN GAMES are more likely to be the biggest competition of river SUP in the world. About a hundred of participants coming from the whole continent is present and some very famous paddlers like Izzy Gomez, Annabel Anderson or also Chuck Patterson are there too. The competition takes place on Saturday with the Yety downriver sup sprint: a 2/3 class course and 3 miles time trial. In the men category, the Japanese Masayuki Takahata (aka yaku) is the fastest and gets ahead of the american superstar Spencer Lacy from Badfish with 1.08 seconds and finally, wins his first contest over 6 participations. Mike Tavres, one of the SUP legends finishes his race in 18 minutes and 57 seconds. Dan Gaverne finishes in the 4th place and Nico in the 5th. In the women category, Annabel Anderson from New Zealand wins the race in 7 seconds ahead of the number two olympic slalom kayak champion in Athens (2004). Rebecca Giddens, Hiroko Sasaki (from Tokyo) end up on the podium too. Brittanie Parker, one of the most active river supers couldn’t participate because of a post-op convalescence but she came to support her friends.