We had no idea that the world championship outrigger canoe races would be held in Bora Bora the same week we were there in March 2002. While very few Americans were aware of these races which included the USA among fifteen participating nations, this is an important event held every two years in the Pacific. Eleven hundred men and women raced in single or six man/woman canoes for the right to be called world champions.

By the way, this is truely current news to anybody looking at this now, because the races were concluded only ten ... (more)