🎥 A Birds-Eye View of the Thrilling Start of the 2024 Consumers Energy AuSable River Canoe Marathon

🎥 Check out this unedited birds-eye view of the thrilling LeMans-style running start of the Consumers Energy 76th AuSable River Canoe Marathon.
📣 Thousands of fans lined the streets and riverbanks in Grayling, Michigan to catch a glimpse of the teams as they dashed by with their high-tech carbon-fiber racing canoes. Fans describe it as one of the most exciting race starts in all of sports.
The race started in Grayling at 9pm on Saturday night, July 27. The two-person teams paddle 50 to 90 paddle strokes per minute for 14 to 19 hours non-stop and 120 miles to the finish line in Oscoda, on Sunday. Over 50,000 fans view all or some part of the race; race-watch parties at homes along the famed AuSable River are a popular place to be during the last weekend of July every year.
99 (ninety-nine) of the top marathon canoe racing teams from throughout the U.S., Canada, and Belize started the 2024 edition of the AuSable River Canoe Marathon (ARCM). It is one of the toughest, fastest-paced, most grueling, and most competitive marathon canoe races on Earth and it is the middle leg of the prestigious Triple Crown of Canoe Racing.
👉 Check out dozens more AuSable Marathon videos - including the Emmy-award winning ARCM docuseries 'Au Sable', produced by the video team at Consumers Energy. View them all on your big screen TV - by going to the ARCM TH-cam Channel, here: / @ausablemarathon
👉There is a wealth of information the ARCM website: www.AuSableCanoeMarathon.org
👍 Thanks to 9&10 News for collaborating with the ARCM organizing committee to make this video available to the fans!
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The AuSable River Canoe Marathon - Since 1947, One of the Greatest Canoe Races on Earth!
More than 50,000 fans cheer on teams competing in one of North America's toughest & richest canoe races - 120 miles & over 50,000 paddle strokes non-stop overnight on the AuSable River from Grayling to Oscoda, Michigan.
The Marathon's website: AuSableCanoeMarathon.org
The Marathon on Facebook: AuSableCanoeMarathon.org
The Marathon on Instagram: @ausablemarathon
The AuSable River Canoe Marathon is the middle leg of the Triple Crown of Canoe Racing. The Triple Crown of Canoe Racing - La Triple Couronne de Canots Long Parcours - was established in 1992 & recognizes the top performances by marathon canoe racers who compete at all three of North America's most prestigious marathon canoe races including New York's General Clinton Canoe Regatta and Quebec's Classique Internationale de canots de la Mauricie.
The Triple Crown of Canoe Racing website: TripleCrownOfCanoeRacing.com
The Triple Crown on Facebook: TripleCrownOfCanoeRacing
The Triple Crown TH-cam Channel: / triplecrowncanoerace
The Triple Crown on Instagram: @TripleCrownOfCanoeRacing
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