It is the year of the Television, therefore for the first time the Descent is retransmitted, this does that year to year be more the people that respond to this to owe to the impression that stirs up them what see for television.

As anecdote to emphasize the baptism sellero of the President of the Principality that in company of Juan Miguel Feliz (victorious in 1968) carried out the Descent in canoe.

The competition I turn out to be brilliant therefore the brothers Chalupsky (now low German flag) and the Asturian couple Antonio Soto "Tom" and Rafael Hernanz "Falu", they star in one of the most spectacular sorrows than they recall, they conquered Antonio and Hernanz with 1 h 16 min. 02 seg. , Cangas of Onis another village river dweller counted already with its victory in the Sella.