Back around 1999, when I was still racing slalom, a Polish man named Rafal Smolen was hired to coach at the Nantahala Racing Club in western North Carolina. Though I can't really remember, he apparently had a small child. That child, Michal, is now a young adult and a member of the U.S. National Team. This past weekend, he won the under-23 world championship in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia. If I'm not mistaken, he's the first U.S. athlete to win a world championship of any kind in men's kayak since Scott Shipley took the junior world title in the late 1980s.
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