Dartmouth paddler Connor Fitzpatrick has punched his ticket all the way to the Olympic Games in Tokyo after a nail-biting qualifying race on Wednesday.
Connor, who’s 22, needed to win two races to make the Canadian Olympic canoe team.
He won the first in British Columbia a month ago. However, Wednesday’s race was a close call.
Three-tenths of a second was the was margin of victory, which is very small in paddling according to Connor.
His next competition is the Canoe Sprint World Cup in Hungary in May.
The event is a tune-up for the Olympics where paddlers get to test their stroke against the best in the world before heading to Tokyo.
The Summer Games are scheduled to take place July 23rd to August 8th in Tokyo, Japan.
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/ticket-to-tokyo-dartmouth-man-heading-to-olympics-in-canoeing-1.5397634
Good luck to Dartmouth’s Connor Fitzpatrick!
-Ian
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