His wife, Anne, who, oddly enough, moved to Panama City six weeks ago, said, "It was the moment I've always prayed for," and speculated that perhaps her husband had lost his memory from hitting his head in the supposed canoeing accident in 2002 in which he supposedly drowned.
Mr. Ryley of Sky said Thursday that one of the e-mail hacking cases occurred in 2008 and concerned John Darwin, a Briton who staged his death in a fake canoeing accident in 2002 but actually moved to Panama and, in collusion with his wife, collected £500,000 in life insurance.
And amid all of that, he became Britain's first Olympic canoeing champion in the K1 1,000m in Beijing.
Having anchored the outside broadcasts of the rowing last week, Inverdale has skipped off to the Olympic Stadium, leaving Rishi Persad (who?) to replace him at Eton Dorney for the canoeing events in which no one in Britain is that interested.
As an organized sport canoeing began in the second half of the 19th century in local and national competitions in Great Britain and North America, many of which persist.
