Kayaker Kayla’s perfect match ‘LOVE HEALED MY HEART BREAK’
May 29, 2022
4 minutes
Words: Florence Hartigan.
Third time’s the charm for Olympic canoeist Kayla Imrie, who is thrilled to finally be saying “I do” after her wedding was cancelled – twice!
Kayla, who represented New Zealand at the Rio Olympics in 2016, is based in Southern France with fiancé Josh Tyrell, who plays professional rugby for Biarritz.
The happy couple are counting the days to their Kiwi wedding in July, seven and a half years after they met on New Year’s Eve 2014.
“We were at a bar in Whitianga,” recalls Kayla. “Josh called my name from across the room. He was so confident, I assumed I knew him!”
“We started chatting, but I couldn’t place him. Eventually, I just asked him how
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