VAIRES-SUR-MARNE, France — This is not what kayak fans are used to seeing at the Olympics. Competitors' boats drop into the water from a 15-foot-high platform as three other paddlers work furiously to ...

PARIS, France — Athletes sit in their kayaks on a ramp 15 feet above the roaring Olympic rapids and wait to drop down into the water. They will work around obstacles and each other, for a chance at ...

Whitewater Stadium hosts the men’s canoe single (C1) and men’s kayak single (K1) slalom heats on Sunday. Watch the stream of canoe/kayak slalom heats beginning at 11:30 a.m. ET on NBCOlympics.com and ...

Noemie Fox won the inaugural Olympic kayak cross event at the Paris Games on Monday to clinch a gold medal sweep for her family in the women's events, after her sister, Jessica Fox, had dominated the ...

Hungary has the most total canoeing medals in Olympics history with 86: 28 gold, 31 silver and 27 bronze. Germany (34) and the Soviet Union (29), however, have more gold medals. All canoeing events ...

Whitewater churns into foam as double-ended paddles windmill one-person boats into position. The paddles go up in the air as the boats slide through red or green gates, then the furious wind milling ...

The Olympics are a spectacle, a tribute to human achievement, a periodic reminder of the biological magic of the body, all filled with powerful stories about competitors who have dedicated their lives ...

Noel Hendrick, an Irish canoeist, said that it was essential for athletes to be proficient in kayak cross, a chaotic version of canoeing. After being eliminated in Sunday's last 32, the 26-year old ...

VAIRES-SUR-MARNE, France — This is not what kayak fans are used to seeing at the Olympics. Competitors dropping their contacts into the water from a 15-foot-high platform as three other paddlers work ...

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