I spent Saturday and Sunday watching the world championships of whitewater slalom up in Deep Creek, Maryland. Quite a few people I raced with in the 1990s and early 2000s were in attendance. At left above is C1 world champion and Olympian Davey Hearn, one of the true pioneers and all-around nice guys in this sport. With him are his alarmingly-tall son, Jesse, and his brother Bill, who did some very respectable racing of his own back in the 1980s.
And here, Davey's wife Jennifer poses with the earliest star of whitewater racing in the U.S., John Sweet. Mr. Sweet was a many-time national champion in both slalom and wildwater racing. He was also in on first-descents of quite a few rivers in the Mid-Atlantic region, including the Gauley. Sweet's Falls on the upper Gauley is named after him. Many former racers showed up in their old national team gear, and none of it was more awesome than the 70s-era apparel that Mr. Sweet has on in this photo.
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