Monday, 16 January 2012

Canoeing at the Summer Olympics

Canoeing and kayaking has been characteristic as a contest sport in the Summer Olympic Games from the 1936 Games in Berlin even though it was a turn of phrase sport at the 1924 Games in Paris. 
There are two categories of the canoeing in Summer Olympic events which are the sprint and slalom. In these sport two techniques of boats are second-hand canoes with 1 or 2 canoes and kayaks with 1, 2 or 4 kayakers. This is show the way to the name description of each event. For instance C1 is a canoe singles event and K2 is a kayak twice event. 
Races are usually 500m or 1000m of the distance even though from 1936 to 1956there was also 10 km events. It was announced by the International Canoe Federation that the men's 500 m events would be changed at the 2012 Summer Olympics by 200 m events with one of them individual K1 200 m for the women On 13 August 2009. The other events for men at 200 m will be C1, C2, and K-1. On 5 December 2009 this was long-established at their 2009 Board of Directors meeting in Windsor, Berkshire, Great Britain.

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