Kayak cross starts with timed solo runs but then gets really wild.
champion Joe Clarke knows from experience that blood may be spilled as he goes for gold in the new Olympic discipline of kayak cross at the Paris white water centre in August.
“It was a big knock, but that’s what can happen,“ Clarke, three-times world champion in kayak cross, previously known as extreme slalom, told Reuters. “I got a boat to the head. They glued it back together and I was out for five days.” Traditional canoe slalom events such as K1 are against the clock, with paddlers negotiating a course of gates in the churning water as quickly as possible without accruing time penalties -- a format Clarke admits can be boring.
“I mean a canoe slalom final usually takes maybe half an hour or 40 minutes from start to finish, and unless you are really invested in that it’s pretty boring,“ he said. “It’s exciting to have it as a medal event,“ he said. “Everyone has jumped at it and its gone through a whirlwind since I became world champion for the first time in 2021.”
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