Paarl — Team Bamboo Warehouse’s Graeme Solomon and Adrián Boros, as expected, won the 64km opening stage of the Berg River Canoe Marathon from Paarl to Zonquasdrift in 4hr 45min 52sec on Wednesday.But it was not all plain sailing for the favourites, said Solomon. "We made so many mistakes on a low-level river and certainly don’t want a repeat for Thursday’s shortened 27km trek from Gouda to Bridgetown."In second place on Wednesday was the international pair of Britain’s Keith Moule and Joep van Bakel of Holland, with the gap just 90sec."Things went wrong for us for the first 40km and it started with Adrián falling out of his boat at Skooljie. He failed to get back in quick enough to stop Keith and Joep from taking the lead," said Solomon."We worked our way back and then again committed more silly mistakes, taking wrong turns and ending up in the trees, which gifted time to our chief rivals. But then we started to find each other about 20km out from the finish and managed to retake ...
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