18 Aug 2008

Canoeing field evenly matched

9:58 am on 18 August 2008

Olympic medallist turned coach, Paul MacDonald, says the flatwater canoeing field is so evenly matched at the Beijing Olympics that it's hard to know what countries are the biggest threats.

Men's K-1 entrant Ben Fouhy and the K-2 team of Steven Ferguson and Mike Walker begin their Olympic campaigns today .

They've had coaching from two of the best: gold medalists Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald.

MacDonald says the New Zealand team is in great shape, but so is everyone else.